Aukusti Juhana Mela

Finnish botanist (1846-1904).

Aukusti Juhana Mela born August Johan Malmberg (8 March 1846 – 3 February 1904) was a Finnish naturalist and teacher. He wrote several textbooks on zoology and natural history and was an influential figure in education in Finland. Mela was born in Kuopio, the son of assessor Karl August Malmberg and Julie Schlüter. Mela became interested in nature in school thanks to the influence of the doctors Martin Johan Lindfors and Anders Edvin Nylander. Other influences included his contemporaries Zacharias Joachim Cleve and Mikael Runeberg, the national poet's son. He joined the University of Helsink