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This book is a short biography of Erik Laksman (1737‒96), a noted scientist who was active in Siberia in the second half of the 18th century. Laksman was born in Nyslott (present-day Savonlinna), Finland, when it was still a part of the Swedish Empire. He began his higher studies in Finland in the late 1750s and continued in nearby Saint Petersburg, the capital of Imperial Russia. Although he later became a scientist, he was initially ordained as a Lutheran minister and appointed to a church in Barnaul, Siberia. Laksman ...