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JOHAN FRIEDRICH HENKEL. 689
NOTE 96.
LIEUTENANT -COLONEL HORLEMAN.
Brother Horleman, spoken of in Document 108, is Lieutenant
colonel Paco Horleman, when ennobled, Hårleman, who was born
in 1694, and died in 1763. Swedenborg called him " brother," because
he had married Anna Margaretha Rudbeck, daughter of his cousin,
Anna Catharina Schönström, see Document 9, p. 85, no. 2.
The Court-intendant Horleman, mentioned in Document 125, is
Baron Carl Hårleman, a cousin of the former, who was born in 1707,
and died in 1753. By him the Royal Castle in Stockholm was
finished .
NOTE 97.
SEBASTIAN V. THAM .
Sebastian Vollrathson Tham , whose daughter Dean Unge advised
Swedenborg to marry (see Document 111), was born in 1666, and
died June 25, 1729, three months after the date of Dean Unge’s
letter. He was first a merchant in Gottenburg, and afterwards an
assessor, and finally a councillor in the College of Commerce. His
father had immigrated into Sweden from Saxony, where he had been
a burgomaster. Tham’s younger daughter, who was intended by Unge
for Swedenborg, was Johanna Christina, born in 1712. She was
married in 1730 to Baron Salomon von Otter, Councillor of Commerce,
brother of the Major Otter, who was, Unge says in Document 111,
engaged to be married to Tham’s elder daughter.
NOTE 98.
JOHAN FRIEDRICH HENKEL .
Johan Friedrich Henkel, from whom dates Document 117, a great
chemist and mineralogist, was born at Freiberg in Saxony in 1679. He
studied medicine and practised for some time in his native town; but
subsequently he devoted himself exclusively to the study of mineralogy
and chemistry. He was appointed councillor of Mines by Augustus II,
in which capacity he was of great service to his country, especially in
the porcelain manufactory at Meissen. He died in 1744. His valuable
collection of fossils and minerals was transferred after his death to
St. Petersburg. Henkel had been a very voluminous writer; his
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