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690 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
“ Introduction to Mineralogy" was translated into French in 1756. In
1794 and 1795, his correspondence with the learned appeared in three
volumes under the title, " Mineralogische, chemische, und alchemistische
Briefe von reisenden und andern Gelehrten an I. H. Henkel." Dresden.
NOTE 99.
DR. CARL JESPER BENZELIUS.
Dr. Carl Jesper Benzelius, from whose correspondence, which
is preserved in the Cathedral-Library at Linköping, are derived
Documents 118, 127, 142, was the second son of Ericus Benzelius
and Swedenborg’s eldest sister Anna. For further particulars respect
ing him see Document 9, p. 89, no. 3.
NOTE 100 .
JOHAN CHRISTOPH WOLF.
Johan Christoph Wolf, pastor-in-chief of St. Catharine’s in
Hamburg, was born in 1683 at Wernigerode. He studied theology
in Hamburg under the celebrated Fabricius, and in 1710 became
vice-principal of the gymnasium at Flensburg, and in the same year
extraordinary professor of philosophy at Wittenberg. In 1712, he
received the appointment of professor of Oriental languages in Hamburg,
and soon after became the principal of the gymnasium ; finally, in
1716, he was made pastor-in-chief at St. Catharine’s in the same
town. He died in 1739. As he never married, he left his large and
valuable library, consisting of 24,000 volumes, to the public library
connected with the Johanneum in Hamburg. His principal work is
his Bibliotheca Hebræa in four volumes; besides many other philological
and theological works which he published in the Latin language.
Wolf was an industrious correspondent of Ericus Benzelius. Wolf’s
letters to Ericus Benzelius are preserved in the Cathedral-Library
at Linköping, and those of Ericus Benzelius in the Public Library
in Hamburg. From these places are derived Documents 122 and 123.
NOTE 101.
BARON RIBBING .
Baron Conrad Ribbing, whose death is recorded by Swedenborg
in Document 124, was born in 1671 , and became Assessor in the
Court of Appeals in Stockholm in 1705 ; provincial judge in Nerike
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