Bernhard Karl von Koehne

Baron Bernhard Karl von Köhne (Russian: Бернгард (Борис) Васильевич Кёне; Boris Vasilievich Kene; 1817 1887), director of the section for arms in the heraldic department of the Russian senate, and well known numismatist in imperial Russia. After falling out of favour with the scholarly circles in St. Petersburg, he applied for Finnish citizenship in 1859, but it was not granted.

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