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624 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
his death. For the additional information which we are able to
give in the present account, we have to thank a friend, Dr. Ek, who
several years ago, while still professor at the Gymnasium ofGotten
burg, furnished us with some information about Beyer and Rosén,
and the religious trial which clouded the last years of their lives.
The rest we have collected, partly from German and English sources,
and partly from some learned men, who were personally acquainted
with these first promoters of the new doctrine in Sweden.
“Gabriel Andersson Beyer was born in Bohuslän. The year of
his birth is not mentioned in the History of the Bishopric ofGotten
burg .’ Other sources also, which the author consulted, did not con
tain information on this subject. Of his childhood and early man
hood nothing is known, except that, after finishing his preparatory
course in the classical school at Gottenburg, he was admitted into
its gymnasium in 1734, at the same time with Eric Lamberg,
afterwards Bishop of Gottenburg, who in the trial above-mentioned
evinced such an unfriendly disposition towards his former school
companion and present colleague in a subordinate capacity)
in the Board of the Consistory. Both left the gymnasium
at the same time, namely in the autumn of 1739, Lamberg going
to Upsal, and Beyer to Lund. Among twenty members of the
gymnasium who went to the universities, Montin, the dean of the
gymnasium for the time being and the professor of theology, pointed
out these two as classical scholars, who were already able to com
pose short dissertations in the learned languages. After taking the
degree of master of philosophy at Lund, in 1745, Beyer received
the appointment of notary in the Consistory of Gottenburg in
1748 ; he was made Professor of Greek in 1752, and ten years after
he became doctor of theology. In his capacity of professor,
Dr. Beyer delivered several orations on anniversaries, the subjects
of which were taken either from classical literature, or biblical philo
logy. He seems to have been an abler Latin scholar than a speaker
in his own language.
"Beyer’s acquaintance with Swedenborg took place in the follow
ing manner : In the year 1766, Swedenborg arrived at Gottenburg
for the purpose of continuing his journey thence to England. Im
mediately after his arrival he engaged a berth in a ship, which was
to set sail for London in a few days. During his stay at Gotten
burg, Beyer happened by chance to make his acquaintance, and as
he did not know Swedenborg personally, but only by hearsay, and
as he shared the prejudices of those times with regard to his religious
views, he was very much astonished, when he found Swedenborg
discoursing in a most sensible manner, and without the least indication
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