Diary of John Quincy Adams, volume 1
1782-11-15
This forenoon we went and paid a visit to General Armfeldt1 governor of Finland. We dined at his hotel with the Prince Galitzin who arriv'd last night. After dinner we went to see the curiosities of the town, but there is nothing extraordinary altho there is a famous University2 here. In the evening the General Armfeldt came and paid us a visit.
Biographiskt Lexicon öfver Namnkunnige Svenska Män, 23 vols., Orebo and Uppsala,
1836–1857).
Abo Akademi or Universität Abo, the Finnish national university, which was removed to
Helsinki in 1827 after a fire. General Armfelt served as its chancellor (Eino Kaila, Les trois sièecles du l'Université de Finlande, 1640–1940,
Helsinki, 1940, p. 59–60;
Repertorium der diplomatischen Vertreter aller Länder
, p.
492).