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Derived from a different consultation on Low Dimensional Topology prepared and performed by way of Dr Lomonaco on the American Mathematical Society assembly held in San Francisco, California, January 7-11, 1981

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1 Portrait of Jonas Lexell (1699–1768), father of Anders Johan Lexell, painted by Johan Georg Geitel (1683–1771) (Private collection of the Pipping family. The National Museum of Finland. Photo: Per-Olof Welin, published with permission) Lexell’s house was situated about 140 m south-west of the cathedral, at the crossing of Hämeenkatu (in Swedish: Tavastgatan), Uudenmaankatu (in Swedish: Nylandsgatan) and the cathedral park (see Fig. 2). All this wooden housing around the cathedral was destroyed in a devastating fire in September 1827.

The only fact that seems to explain why Schlözer—a German Professor of History at Göttingen—recommended a young mathematician from Åbo, whom he most 4 The German term Abhandlung in the minutes of the academic conferences is translated here as dissertation or treatise; in French, the corresponding word is mémoire (occasionally translated into English as memoir). 36 3 New Prospects in Saint Petersburg Fig. 2 Silhouette portrait of Schlözer’s family in Göttingen. To the right August Ludwig Schlözer with his spouse.

In the aftermath of the wars epidemics were rife, claiming hundreds of victims in the town. Anders Johan Lexell’s father, Jonas Lexell, was a goldsmith and jeweller, born in 1699 in Stockholm as the son of a Lutheran vicar Olaus Lexelius (who died in 1709) and trained by his stepfather Daniel Schultz, a goldsmith and jeweller born in Åbo [53, 86]. In 1725, at a time when Åbo was recovering from a disastrous occupation and in need of skilled labour, Schultz moved back to Finland with his family in the hope of finding work as a goldsmith in Åbo, but apparently without success.

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