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COUNCILLOR NORDENCRAVTZ. 715
NOTE 132.
COUNT LEWENHAUPT.
Count Charles Emil Lewenhaupt, was born in 1691. In 1709, he
was captain in the service of Holstein ; and in 1715, colonel of the
regiment of the island of Rügen. In 1720, he was extraordinary
ambassador of Sweden to Vienna; and in 1722, he became major
general of cavalry. In 1734, he was appointed the presiding officer
of the Diet ; and when war was declared against Russia in 1741, he
was made commander- in -chief of the Swedish army. On account
of his non -success in war, he fell a victim to state intrigues, and was
beheaded in August, 1743 (see p . 485).
NOTE 133.
COUNCILLOR NORDENCRANTZ.
Anders Nordencrantz, Swedenborg’s opponent at the Diet of
1760 and 1761, was born in 1697 at Sundswall, where his father
Lorentz Backman, was burgomaster. His father had thirteen children,
and could not devote much time or money to the education of Anders;
besides, the Swedish “Biografiskt Lexicon ” informs us, he was, while
a boy, dull and of slow comprehension. The result was that he grew
up without much information, and had, when a young man, to make up
for his early deficiencies by close application and persevering study.
Nordencrantz accordingly was a self-taught man , and combined in
a great degree all the advantages and disadvantages of such a mode
of study. The disadvantages were a great conceit of his own learning
and opinions, and a contempt for the learning and opinions of others,
coupled with great obstinacy; but at the same time with an iron will
which enabled him to conquer difficulties and remove obstructions.
Like all men of strong will, Nordencrantz had many friends and many
enemies during his life, but, as his biographer informs us, he had
not a single friend who remained his friend during the whole of his
life. Nordencrantz engaged early in business for himself, and in
1720 removed to Drontheim in Norway, whence he traded to Great
Britain in fish and other merchandize. In 1722, he suffered ship
wreck in going to Scotland, and on being rescued went to London,
where he studied trade, political economy, and mechanics, and began
the composition of a work on commerce and political economy. In
1724, he returned to Sweden, and performed some engineering works,
by which he acquired credit at home and in Russia; and in 1727,
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