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704 NOTES TO VOLUME I.
NOTE 119.
PASTOR FERELIUS.
Magister Arvid Ferelius was the predecessor of Mathesius,118 as
pastor of the Swedish Church in London. In the Anteckningar, & c.,
we read concerning him : "He was born in Mariestad, May 17, 1725,
where his father Lars Ferell followed the vocation of a dyer. After
passing through the gymnasia of Mariestad and Skara, he went to
the University of Upsal in 1746, and was ordained a priest at Skara
in 1754. In 1757 he visited the University of Greifswalde, and during
the war served as chaplain in the Royal Westgötha Dal regiment.
He was made a master of philosophy at Greifswalde in 1757, and
returned to Sweden in the beginning of 1758. Having passed his
examination as pastor at Skara he was ordered the same year by
the Chapter of Skara to act as curate to Dr. Noring, pastor of the
Swedish Church in London. In 1761 he was installed as pastor in
the same Church, and having returned to Sweden in 1772, he was
the same year preferred to the pastorate of Sköfde with the title of
dean. He died in 1793. He was married June 1, 1768, to Sara
Kullman, daughter of Dean Kullman of Thorso in Westergöthland,
who went to London to meet her future husband; the marriage took
place on board a Swedish vessel, the ceremony being performed by
Magister Mathesius, who was at the time in London. Their daughter
Helena Catharina, born in 1769, was married to Carl Joh. Schönherr,
the Councillor of Commerce; Greta, born in 1775, to Gust. J. Bill
berg, and Maria Christina, born in 1777, to Dr. Levin Olbers, Dean
of Skara.
After Ferelius had returned to Sweden in 1772, he was requested
by the House of the Clergy through their Speaker, Bishop Forsienius,
to make a report of his experience with regard to Swedenborg. A
similar request was made to him by Professor Trätgård of Greits
walde in December, 1779, with which he complied in a letter dated
March 17, 1780. The editor of these documents succeeded in
obtaining a certified copy of this letter during his stay in Stockholm
in 1869, and a translation of it will be found in Section X. A third
statement of his experience with Swedenborg, Ferelius made orally
to Dr. Carl Johan Knös, Dean of Skara, who, when a young man
on his way to the University of Upsal, staid with Ferelius in Sköfde
in 1784, and who entered in his Diary an account of what he had
heard from Ferelius respecting Swedenborg. This account also will
be found in Section X.
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