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282 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
established in Sweden, and connected it with the University
of Upsala. It was not, however, merely a school for boys,
but contained provision for the training of clergy, and was
perhaps the first diocesan theological college ever instituted
in a Protestant country. He had indeed, I suppose, a
dream of founding a university of his own, and he may
have wished to emulate his old colleague, Rothovius, who
succeeded in getting such an institution established in
Finland.
He gave the gymnasium a library, and especially fur
nished it with musical books, which were, till that time,
rare in Sweden. He attracted to it good teachers, besides
Stiernhielm, of whom I have already spoken, many of
whom went out as head teachers into other parts of the
country. He founded a botanical garden. He set up a
printing press furnished with Hebrew and Greek, as well
as Latin and Swedish types. He established a girls
school, with free education and board for the students.
The teachers were married ladies, who taught domestic
economy as well as other subjects. He also assisted in the
foundation of an orphanage, in which children were fed,
clothed and taught. But both of these institutions un
fortunately fell into decay after his death. Many other
schools in the country and in the town of Fahlun owed
much to him. Fie rebuilt the hospital, or poor house, and
went into all the details of its economy himself. He also
rebuilt the consistorium or meeting hall for the clergy,
which is still called the Nya Kapitlet. Fie was not, how
ever, by any means content with this creation of institu
tions and buildings. He was a law-giver to his diocese,
and established the system of Church registers, which has
now become universal in Sweden, and is one of the most
striking external features of Swedish clerical life. In
many ways indeed the diocese of Vesteras, under Rud-
beckius, became a model to the whole country. During
his visitation journeys he made complete maps and topo
graphical descriptions of all the parishes, and inventories
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