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DR. JOHAN ROSÉN. 655
Risell of Upsal, a daughter of Bishop Halenius, who, together with
her younger brothers, visited Swedenborg after the death of her
father.
NOTE 45 .
DR. JOHAN ROSÉN.
Dr. Johan Rosén, who shared the religious opinions of Dr. Beyer
(see Note 22) and was subjected to the same persecution, was born
in 1726. His father Rosenius was pastor of Sexdräga in West
gothland. The son enjoyed his father’s tuition; was received into
the gymnasium at Gottenburg in 1737; went to Upsal in 1742 ; and
took his Master’s degree at Lund in 1748. In 1758, he became the
principal of the school in Gottenburg; and in the following year,
lector, i.e. professor, of eloquence and poetry. Besides orations and
arguments, which Rosen, according to the manner of the times, wrote
in Latin verse, he published in 1759 in Swedish the “Gottenburg
Magazine" (Götheborgska Magazinet); in 1764, the "Gottenburg
Weekly” (Götheborg’s weckoblad); in 1768, the “Monthly Clerical
News” (Presttidningarne); and in 1772 a few numbers appeared
of a periodical publication called, “What News?" (Hwad nytt ?
Hwad nytt ?) not to mention several other publications, which show
that he had a clear understanding and a warm heart, and extra
ordinary talent as a writer. According to the " History of the Bishop
ric of Gottenburg," he combined with his acquirements in Roman
literature, which was his favourite study, a great knowledge of his
mother -tongue, in the service of which he wrote several critical
disputations. The same authority points him out as the real founder
of a Society in Gottenburg, which, after receiving the sanction of
the government, became known by the name of the Royal Union of
Science and Literature (Königl. Wetenskaps- och Witterhets- sam
hället), but which in the beginning consisted of a union of young
men , some even from the commercial classes, who met for the purpose
of perfecting themselves in the use of the Swedish language. Rosén
did not long survive Emanuel Swedenborg, his revered teacher, from
whose writings he derived those principles which constituted the basis
of his religious conviction. Emanuel Swedenborg died in 1772, and
Dr. Rosén in August 1773. An extended report of the trial of
Doctors Beyer and Rosén before the Consistory of Gottenburg, on
account of their belief in the teachings of Swedenborg, is contained
in Section IX.
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