in Turku, Finland. The asteroid was named after Finnish astronomer Ilmari Bonsdorff, who founded the Finnish Geodetic Institute. Bonsdorffia is a non-family

Meanings of minor-planet names: 1001–2000

at the University of Brussels MPC · 1476 1477 Bonsdorffia 1938 CC Ilmari Bonsdorff [fi] (1879–1950), Finnish astronomer and founder of the Finnish Geodetic

Finnish Academy of Science and Letters

Äyräpää (archeology) 1947: Gustaf John Ramstedt (Altaic languages) 1947: Ilmari Bonsdorff [fi] (geodesy) 1946: Uno Nils Oskar Harva (Finno-Ugric linguistics)

Order of the Lion of Finland

3rd Duke of Zaragoza (1945) Helge Söderbom (1946) Ilmari Bonsdorff [fi] (1946) Max von Bonsdorff (1946) Walter Gräsbeck [fi] (1946) Berndt Grönblom (1946)

Provincial Governors of Finland

Borgenström 1905–1911 Eliel Ilmari Wuorinen 1911–1917 Albert Alexander von Hellens 1917 (acting) Kaarlo Collan 1917–1922 Ilmari Helenius 1922–1932 Wilho

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