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670 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 64 .
HEDWIG ELEONORA .
Hedwig Eleonora, the Queen Dowager, who is mentioned in Docu
ments 49 and 50, was the grandmother of Charles XII, and wife of
Charles X ( Charles Gustavus of Zweibrücken ), who died in 1660.
Prof. Atterbom in his note to Document 49, speaks of her thus :
"The Queen Dowager, Hedwig Eleonora, died three days afterwards,
on November 24, in her eightieth year. Her son, Charles XI, did
not derive his best qualities from her; her influence on his edu
cation and on his married life, and also on the childhood of her
grandson, Charles XII, has contributed in no small degree to Swe
den’s misfortunes. Still the remembrance of all these things is
drowned in a just feeling of pity for the aged mother of the two
Charleses (Carla -modren ), on seeing her a witness of Sweden’s sudden
fall from that height on which she herself had been enthroned, and
also on beholding her on her deathbed surrounded by the gloomiest
forebodings; nay, in her very last moments being uncertain whether
her grandson, who was beleaguered in Stralsund, was not then a
prisoner in the hands of his too powerful enemies. Charles XII,
who, on the very day of her death, was boldly resisting an assault
of the enemy against his walls, did not land in Sweden until the
13th of December. On the 17th the Adjutant-general Zander arrived
in Stockholm bringing this news.”
NOTE 65.
GUSTAV BENZELSTJERNA.
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Gustav Benzelstjerna, a younger brother of Ericus Benzelius, whose
name frequently occurs in Swedenborg’s letters to Ericus Benzelius,
(see Documents 49, 54, 61, etc.) was born in 1683. He was at first clerk
in the Royal Archives; and in 1732 was made Royal Librarian . On
the resignation of Rosenadler,51 in 1737, he became Censor of the Press,
and died in 1746. He is known in the learned world by his “Corre
spondence" with his brother Ericus, which was edited by Liden, the
librarian of Linköping, and which is full of interesting inforntation.
Swedenborg mentions Gustav Benzelstjerna in his " Spiritual Diary"
in several places; in the "Larger Diary” (p. 69) he says of him :
" In the external form he seemed honest, but it appeared that he
led a [different] life when by himself. It was his custom , when
answering those against whom he entertained evil thoughts, to chide
them with such cutting sarcasms as would wound them interiorly, so
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