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DOCUMENT 10.
BISHOP JESPER SWEDBERG .
A BIOGRAPHY.
BISHOP Swedberg is one of the few churchmen of Sweden
who have acquired a notable position in Church history; and
few have exercised a more extensive influence upon Swedish
society in general. Such an eventful and influential life as
that of Swedberg deserves therefore to be treated in detail,
and in extenso.
Jesper Swedberg was born Aug. 28, 1653, on the estate of
Sweden, about a quarter of a Swedish mile from Fahlun, where
his father Daniel Isaksson (“Daniel upon Sveden") was a miner
and mine-owner. According to a custom of the times which
is still prevalent, and to which many names, more or less pe
culiar, of clergymen owe their origin, his son Jesper was called
Swedberg, after the estate, while another of his sons assumed
the name Schönström . His mother’s name, Anna Bullernæsia,
is even a more remarkable instance of this custom, being
the Latinized form of the parish of Bollnäs in Helsingland. His
mother’s father was the minister of Svärdsjö, Magister Peter
Bullernæsius, on account of whose supposed papistic tendencies
a great noise was made by another clergyman of “ Stora
Kopparberget” [the Great Copper-mountain). The memory of
his maternal grandfather was held in great esteem by Swed.
berg, and he had great respect for his faith, although it had
been stigmatized as heretical, and for the witness which he
bore to the truth, even by his writings (e. g. by his " colloquium
christianum de mendacio). Swedberg’s parents were pious and
* Taken from the “ Biographiskt Lexicon," Vol. XVI, pp. 224-290, an
account written by C. W. S.
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