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years later. The first inspector of the Westmanland-Dala nation was
Olof Rudbeck, Sr., the professor in the Faculty of Medicine who had
de-fended the revolutionary Cartesian philosophy. Since Olof Rudbeck lived
until after the great fire at Upsala in 1702, and was a next-door
neigh-bor of Jesper Swedberg, it is likely that Swedenborg received some
impressions from this great scientist and investigator. We know that
Jesper Swedberg’s inclinations were not in the scientific and philosophical
direction, but he himself says that he permitted his children freely to
choose their own occupations. In his disputation thesis Swedenborg
addresses his parent in terms of loving, filial respect, but they do not
seem to have stood very near one another in the following years.
Swedenborg’s steps were not taken in the theological path; he himself
after-wards recorded that he was kept from reading works on dogmatic
theo-logy, and his work in the Faculty of Philosophy at Upsala no doubt
consisted for the most part of a thorough study of the classics and of
some branches of mathematics and the natural Sciences. Perhaps he
also did some work in the Faculty of Medicine, for the professorship of
physics, which in those days included the major part of the natural
Sciences, was in the Medical Faculty. More detailed information as to
the professors, subjects, and text-books of the period 1699—1709 is fouud
in the large printed folio sheets which in those days constituted the
University Catalogue. It seems likely, if we may judge from certain
expressions in Swedenborg’s earliest letters, written soon after he left
the University, that his teachers were among others the following
professors in the Faculty of Philosophy: the professor of mathematics,
Harald Wallerius; the professor of astronomy, Pehr Elvius; and the Schyttean
professor of elocution, Johannes Upmark, afterwards enuobled with the
name Rosenadler. He also praises the professor of theoretical and
practical medicine, Lars Roberg. In passing it may be mentioned that there
is an oil portrait of Professor Wallerius at Upsala showing him writh
one arm resting upon a volume of Descartes; and that the works of
that philosopher were still studied during Swedenborg’s stay at the
University appears from the catalogue of 1708, which records that the
professor of theoretical philosophy, Magister Fabianus Toerner, under
whose presidency Sivedenborg disputed the following year, lectured on
Aristotle’s Logic compared with Descartes’.
Swedenborg was a student at the University of Upsala from 1699
to 1709. He then spent a few months at the episcopal residence, Brunsbo,
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