On 21 February 1819, a 32-ft whale stranded near Grömitz, in Schleswig-Holstein. The Swedish-born German naturalist Karl Rudolphi initially identified it as "Balaena rostrata" (="Balaenoptera acutorostrata"). In 1823, the French naturalist Georges Cuvier described and figured Rudolphi's specimen under the name "rorqual du Nord". In 1828, Rene Lesson translated this term into "Balaenoptera borealis", basing his designation partly on Cuvier's description of Rudolphi's specimen and partly on a 54-ft female that had stranded on the coast of France the previous year (this was later identified as a juvenile fin whale, "Balaenoptera physalus"). In 1846, the English zoologist John Edward Gray, ignoring Lesson's designation, named Rudolphi's specimen "Balaenoptera laticeps", which others followed. In 1865, the British zoologist William Henry Flower named a 45-ft specimen that had been obtained from Pekalongan, on the north coast of Java, "Sibbaldius" (="Balaenoptera") "schlegelii"—in 1946 the Russian scientist A.G. Tomilin synonymized "S. schlegelii" and "B. borealis", creating the subspecies "B. b. schlegelii" and "B. b. borealis". In 1884–85, the Norwegian scientist G. A. Guldberg first identified the "sejhval" of Finnmark with "B. borealis".