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LINEA CAROLINA. 677
NOTE 73.
GEORG STJERNHJELM .
Georg Stjernhjelm , for whom Swedenborg seems to have enter
tained great respect, (Document 64, p. 267, and Documents 70
and 71 A,) was a man of true genius, and at the same time of ency
clopaedic learning. He was a poet and mathematician, a philo
logist and physicist, an historian and a commentator on Swedish laws.
His allegorical and didactic poem “Hercules,” is still regarded as
one of the gems of Swedish literature. He introduced the microscope
and magnifying glasses into Sweden, and made discoveries in the
physical sciences. He wrote a theory of numbers and a work on
trigonometry. He investigated the origin of the Swedish language,
and published a glossary of Ulphilas’ "Gothic Gospels ;" and he left
behind him a great number of unpublished writings on the most varied
subjects in science, philosophy, and philology. He was a man of
independent character, and the very opposite of a sycophant; where
fore he had many persecutions and privations to suffer, not only in
his earlier but in his later years ; yet he was always contented and
cheerful, and was possessed of the most imperturbable good humour.
This great man, of whom his countrymen feel justly proud, was born
in Dalecarlia in 1598, where his father was a miner; in 1625, he
became professor in the gymnasium of Westerås ; in 1630, he was
made assessor in the Court of Appeals at Dorpat, Livonia ; in 1631,
he had the ancient diploma of nobility of his family renewed, when
he called himself Stjernhjelm , his former name having been Göran
Olofssohn, and afterwards Lillje. In 1648, he became Vice -President
of the Court of Appeals at Dorpat. In consequence of the troubled
state of Livonia, and the continual incursions of the Russians, he
several times lost all his possessions, and had to flee to Stockholm ,
where he was valued for his poetical genius, but was in disgrace at
Queen Christina’s Court because of his independent character and
unsparing denunciation of her extravagance and luxuriousness. After
Christina’s abdication he led a quieter life. In 1666, he was made
President of the College of Antiquities at Upsal ; and died in 1672.
Stjernhjelm was the first Swede who was a member of the Royal
Society of London.
NOTE 74.
LINEA CAROLINA.
Having submitted a memorial to the government on the subject,
Stjernhjelm73 was commissioned in 1661 to determine more minutely
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