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654 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
that she was by no means a sentimental enthusiast, but possessed
an extensive knowledge of the world and of human nature, and was
endowed with uncommon prudence; and on account of her intelligence
she was highly esteemed throughout the whole of Holstein, in which
country she resided during the latter part of her life. Her husband,
with whom I am also acquainted, is a man utterly incapable of assert
ing an untruth, and of relating wrongly what he has heard." The
account given of this occurrence by Chamberlain von Ammon, the
brother of Madame de Marteville, was published by the Academician
Dieudonné Thiébault in his work entitled: "Mes Souvenirs de vingt
ans de Séjour à Berlin ,” Vol. II. p. 254-257. A third account of
this occurrence furnished by the Countess von Schwerin, a sister of
Madame de Marteville, who lived at the time in Berlin, was published
by L. L. von Brenkenhoff, in a little work entitled " Paradoxa," part II,
Potsdam , 1789. The Countess von Schwerin had derived her inform
ation from the daughter of Madame de Marteville, and from the
Secretary of the Legation, Letocard, who was at the time with
Madame de Marteville in Stockholm . All these various accounts
will be found in Section XI.
NOTE 44 .
BISHOP HALENIUS.
Dr. Engelbrecht Halenius was born in 1700. In 1737, he became
Professor at Upsal; in 1752, doctor of theology; and in 1753 Bishop
of Skara, where he died in 1767. His children were ennobled under
the name of Hallencreutz. His meeting with Swedenborg, which is
recorded in paragraph 30 of Document 6, is confirmed by the Swedish
Biographical Dictionary, which says concerning him : " Bishop Hallenius
was one of the most remarkable theologians of Sweden. He possessed
great natural gifts, a penetrating understanding, a good memory,
and a great facility in writing and speaking with force and
clearness. His private character, however, was not stainless. He
was very avaricious, and it is said that, during the period of freedom
[1719–1773), he was involved in more party-strife than any other
bishop. He had a controversy with Swedenborg, who at one time
had foretold that a severe illness would overtake the Bishop, of
which he would only be cured by an entire change of heart, to be
brought about by an industrious study of Swedenborg’s theological
works ; a prophecy which is said to have been literally fulfilled.” See
also in Section XI an account furnished by the widow of Professor
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