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THROUGH SWEDEN. 105
Mr. Melanderhielm, a mathematician; Mr. Rofenftein, formerly
preceptor to the king, and fecretary of the Swedifh academy ; Mr.
B. Ferner, preceptor to Guftavus II]. when prince royal of
Sweden; Mr. John Van Angenftroem, author of a Guide to the
Mines for the ufe of travellers (he has now given up the {ciences,
and betaken himfelf wholly to agriculture); Mr. C. J. Strand,
keeper of the archives of the kingdom; Mr. G. Adlerbeth, anti-
quarian of the kingdom, and perpetual fecretary to the academy
of belles-lettres (he publifhed fome wretched tragedies); Mr. A. F.
Riftel, lately librarian to his majefty, a poet, and tranflator of fe-
veral fpeeches in Sallutt ; Mr. J. H. Liden, profeffor of hiftory ;
Mr. J. Murrberg, mafter of the cathedral f{chool of Stockholm,
an elegant hiftorian (he wrote an account of Chriftian’s refidence
at Stockholm in 1520); Mr. J. Hallenberg, hiftoriographer of
the kingdom; Mr. C. J. Nordin, dean and hiftoriographer of the
royal orders; he has written, in the Memoirs of the Academy,
the Lives of Illuftrious Swedes; Mr. F. J. Neikter, profeffor of
eloquence at Upfala; Mr. Porthan, profeffor of eloquence in the
univerfity of Abo; Mr. Everhand, profeffor of the oriental lan-
guages. |
The regulations of this academy are much the fame with thofe
of the academy of infcriptions and belles-lettres at Paris. The
new academy at Stockholm for the cultivation of the Swedifh
language, is likewife formed nearly on the model of the Academie
Frangoife, except that the number of the members of the Swedifh
academy is only eighteen inftead of forty. The Swedi/h Academy, or,
Vou. I. P as
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