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JOHAN ROSENADLER , 661
he was also renowned for his skill in fencing and gymnastic exercises;
he graduated with high honours, and then went abroad, where he
also studied fortification. After his return home he was appointed
in 1696 assistant professor of Philosophy at Upsal. He was the first
native Swede who became Professor Skytteanus at Upsal by the
unanimous recommendation of the Philosophical Faculty and the
Academical Consistory. In 1716 he was appointed Censor Librorum ,
and in 1719, when he was ennobled, he assumed the name of
Rosenadler, although he had already made the name of Upmarck
famous in science and eloquence. In 1722 he received the title of
Councillor of Chancery, with a seat in the College of Chancery and
a vote in every thing that pertained to his office as censor. He
resigned his office in 1737, when he received the title of Secretary
of State. He died in Stockholm in 1743. Rosenadler was a great
orator, and was esteemed on account of his thorough erudition. He
presided at many disputations, and delivered many Latin orations
and eulogies, which are prized as master-pieces.” Such was the
judgment that was passed upon Rosenadler in this life; in the other
life he appeared differently. Swedenborg says concerning him in the
“ Diary” (No. 5700 ): “There are many who are able to confirm any
thing they please so dextrously, that it appears altogether as if it were
true; and on that account they are reputed in the world as learned
and more rational than others; when yet they have scarcely any
understanding of the truth , and their whole mind is closed and in
obscurity. This was especially seen in the case of Rosenadler, who
was able to confirm anything he pleased, and so dextrously that it
could scarcely be done better by any one else ; and after it was thus
confirmed, he believed it to be true. He was thought to possess a
more interior understanding and discrimination than others; and as
he had such a faculty for confirming things, he was sent to a place
where interior thought prevailed, when he became completely blind,
so that he could see nothing; such was the case with him whenever
he was called upon to think interiorly. He therefore insisted, as he
had believed in the world, that he could make any thing true that
he chose ; he was, however, instructed experimentally, that this is a
fallacy, and that he was even utterly unable to see and understand
that which is true in itself.” Rosenadler had two sons. The elder,
Johan Adrian, presented his father’s library to the Gymnasium at
Carlstadt, its own having been destroyed by fire. His younger son,
Carl Albrecht, gave the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm , of which
a member, a handsome sum of money to help to pur
chase the building it now occupies, besides making a considerable
addition to its library and to its numismatic collection.
he was
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