Full resolution (JPEG) - On this page / på denna sida - Sidor ...
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
Below is the raw OCR text
from the above scanned image.
Do you see an error? Proofread the page now!
Här nedan syns maskintolkade texten från faksimilbilden ovan.
Ser du något fel? Korrekturläs sidan nu!
This page has never been proofread. / Denna sida har aldrig korrekturlästs.
RÉAUMUR. 685
at Upsal, was the son of Elof Burman, the commissioner of taxes at
Upsal. His sister Johanna Catharina was married to Gustav Benzel
stjerna,65 and after his death to Archbishop Beronius.
NOTE 90 .
OLOF NORDBORG.
Magister Olof Nordborg, mentioned in Document 102, was pastor
at the Swedish Church in London from 1712 to 1724, when he
was at the request of his congregation recalled to Sweden. On
his return he received the pastorate of Fredsberg in the diocese of
Skara. He is described as a learned and very talented man, but
who in his after years suffered from melancholy and aberration of
mind. He committed suicide in 1745. .
NOTE 91 .
ANDERS HESSELIUS.
>
Anders Hesselius, an elder brother of Dr. Johan Hesselius (see
Note 76), was born in 1677. After graduating at Upsal in 1707, he
was appointed, in 1711, preacher of the Swedish congregations in
Delaware and Pennsylvania, North America. He remained there till
1723, giving universal satisfaction, when he was suddenly called back
to Sweden by Bishop Swedberg. He arrived in London at the end
of the month of November, and had to remain there for seven
months, before he found an opportunity of returning to Sweden.
While in London he lost his wife, whom he had married in America.
On being presented to the King in December, 1724, according to
the Swedish Biografiskt Lexicon ," he received from him the pastorate
of Gagnef in Dalecarlia, and not of “Säter," as is stated by Sweden
borg in Document 102. He died at Gagnef in 1733. Concerning
the fate of his collections in natural history, which are mentioned
by Swedenborg, see Note 76.
NOTE 92.
RÉAUMUR.
René Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur, who is mentioned by
Swedenborg in Document 102, and described by him as a "clever
scientific man," was born at La Rochelle in France, in 1683 ; and
<< prev. page << föreg. sida << >> nästa sida >> next page >>
