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JOHAN HENRIC WERNER. 673
medicine at Rheims. By the kind offices of Bishop Swedberg he
was appointed provincial physician at Skara, where for four years
he resided in the Bishop’s house at Brunsbo. He afterwards received
the appointment of physician to the mining district around Fahlun.
Here he married and settled on the estate called Sweden, the
homestead of the Swedberg family. He had seven children, the eldest
of whom , Sara Elisabeth, was married to the celebrated Linnæus,
so that the great Swedish botanist became related by marriage to
Emanuel Swedenborg ; yet as this marriage did not take place until
1739, Swedenborg, as we have shown in Note 16, was probably not
much acquainted with him. Moræus died in 1742, on his estate of
Sweden, in his seventy-first year, having enjoyed excellent health
during the whole of his life. He was highly esteemed both for his
professional skill and for his social and domestic virtues; and it is
most gratifying to learn from the Spiritual Diary," that the good
reputation which Moræus acquired in this world followed him into
the other; for we read concerning him in no. 4717 : "I saw two men
who were good and had been known to me in the world (Moræus
and Bierchenius129); they appeared with an entirely different face
from what they had before. For good conjoined with truth forms
the face, and every angel and good spirit is the form of his own
good which has received form .” It is very satisfactory to know that
both the father, from whom Swedenborg derived his hereditary qualities,
and the teacher who guided his childhood in the acquirement of know
ledge, were really good men.
NOTE 67.
JOHAN HENRIC WERNER.
Johan Henric Werner, Swedenborg’s publisher, was printer to
His Majesty the King, and also to the University of Upsal. In 1722
he received the title of “ Directeur." From Swedenborg’s description
of his character in Document 50, he does not seem to have been
actuated by generous impulses. He printed and published the Dedalus
Hyperboreus, and all the author’s other works written in the Swedish
language, with the exception of one, "Om Jordens Gång och Stånd,"
which was published at Skara. For Bishop Swedberg’s opinion of
Werner see Documents 17 and 19.
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