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PASTOR MATHESIUS. 701
London, after Swedenborg’s departure into the other life; to the same
agent also Mr. Lindegren had previously reported that Swedenborg
had left no will.
NOTE 117.
CHARLES LINDEGREN .
Charles Lindegren, the writer of Document 141, and his brother
Anders Lindegren, were the heads of a highly respected Swedish
house in London. Their names frequently occur in the records of
the Swedish Church in London (which were published in 1852 by
G. W. Carlson), as trustees and members of the vestry of that Church .
Of the two brothers, Charles seems to have been the more popular,
as on several occasions when trustees were appointed, he obtained
most votes. Through Charles Lindegren Swedenborg transacted
most of his business during his last stay in London: before him Johann
Spieker had been his banker, as appears from Document 134. Lindegren
was born in Finland in 1685, and arrived in London in 1712, where
he died in 1775, in his ninetieth year.
NOTE 118.
PASTOR MATHESIUS.
Magister Aaron Mathesius, who has gained an unenviable notoriety
from having circulated a report that in consequence of a severe
illness Swedenborg had lost his reason, and that on his deathbed he
recanted his doctrines, was pastor of the Swedish Church in London
from 1773 to 1784. He was born in 1736 in Pyhäjocki, Finland, where
his father was dean (contracts-prost). He was the youngest of twenty
fivechildren, and as his father died in 1740, he was educated chiefly at
the expense ofhis elder brothers. After passing through the gymnasium
at Uleaborg, he went to the University of Upsal in 1754; where he
received the degree of master of philosophy in 1764. A short time
afterwards he was engaged by Dr. Noring, Dean of the Swedish
Church in London, as private tutor for his son, in which capacity
he continued for three years. At the close of the year 1767 he went,
to Åbo in Finland, where he was ordained priest, and in 1768 he
returned to London, where he acted as curate to Pastor Ferelius.119
In 1770 and 1771 he was acting pastor of the Danish Church in
London. In 1772 he there became assistant-pastor of the Swedish
Church ; and pastor in 1773 (see Document 141).
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