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But a Swedish speaking Finn and it seems he made his discoveries while living in Sweden.

From wikipedia:

"Johan Gadolin was born in Åbo (Finnish name Turku), Finland (then a part of Sweden)." [0]

"In 1779 Gadolin moved to Uppsala University."

Uppsala is in Sweden.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Gadolin

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Also most of todays Finland was under Swedish rule until 1809.

Was any part of todays Finland not under Swedish rule 1809?

The area around Viborg was lost to the russians in 1721 and 1743. The western part of that, Lappeenranta and part of Kymenlaakso, are part of Finland today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Finland

> Finland (then a part of Sweden)

If Gadolin is Finnish, then, by the same logic, Immanuel Kant is Russian, because his birthplace, Koenigsberg, is a Russian exclave now.

Gadolin was Finnish by the same logic Benjamin Franklin was American. Or would you consider him an Englishman? He was born in the British colony, after all.

> But a Swedish speaking Finn

this is the argument Russia has used to invade Ukraine...

That Finland has a sizable Swedish-speaking minority? The guy was considered Swedish back then; Finland was simply the Eastern half of the Swedish kingdom.

There's plenty of Finnish speaking Swedes too. Is that also an argument for invasion?

No, that speaking Swedish means you are not Finnish or, in any remote way, makes you "closer to being Swedish"

What's your opinion on Belgians and the Swiss?

that language != nationality?

Swedish is an official language in Finland nowadays. Back then, it was just a part of Sweden (Finland was not independent)

the point is that just because a Finnish person speaks Swedish as native language does NOT make them Swedish! or any less Finnnish

Reminds me of Tesla. Was he Serb or Croatian

He was an American.

Right

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