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658 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
1804. One of the sons, Johan Albrecht, who died in 1783, was
contre-admiral; and another, Abraham Daniel, who died in 1809,
was major -general.
NOTE 48 .
ANREP’S ÄTTAR- TAFLOR.
Anrep’s Ättar-Taflor, in four large volumes, is a digest of the
genealogical tables and registers of the House of Nobles (Riddarhuset)
in Stockholm . It is the Swedish Book of Nobles, which appeared
from 1857 to 1864. Too much praise cannot he awarded to this
work, which has been executed with the greatest accuracy and
completeness, and upon which we have largely drawn in the pre
paration of these notes.
NOTE 49.
OLOF RUDBECK.
Olof Rudbeck the younger, son of Olaus Rudbeckius the elder,
Professor at Upsal, was born in 1660. Atterbom says of him in
the Appendix to his " Siare och Skalder," p. 132 : “ Already in his
father’s life-time he became his successor at Upsal as Professor of
Anatomy and Botany. In 1739 he received the appointment of
Archiater or Royal Physician, and died in 1740. This Rudbeck
could not certainly be compared with his father, the author of the
" Atlantica ," in the colossal dimensions of his polyhistorical and
universal knowledge, yet he was a man of extensive erudition. He
inherited much of his father’s love for botany and antiquarian lore,
but much less of his genius, and still less of his personal energy.
While he was taxing his brain to discover a likeness between the
Hebrew , Gothic, and Laponian languages, and was compiling a
Thesaurus Linguarum Asia , Africæ, et Europee harmonicus, which ,
besides other things, was to prove philologically his father’s fundamental
theory, the study of anatomy, medicine, and botany reached the lowest
possible ebb in the university. Still, according to Gezelius, he was
one of the principal helpers of Benzelius in establishing the Society
of Sciences at Upsal. After the removal of Benzelius to Gottenburg
as its bishop, and afterwards to Linköping, Rudbeck’s zeal slackened
considerably, and the publication of the “Acta Literaria ” of the
Society proceeded very slowly. And the Lexicon Harmonicum ,
which consists of ten quarto volumes, and in copying which four
students were engaged for many years, remains unpublished to this
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