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THE DE LA GARDIE FAMILY. 721
an invitation from Count De la Gardie to arrange his collection of
manuscripts; afterwards he had access to the manuscript collections
of Count Engeström and others, thus laying the foundation of a
most extensive knowledge of Swedish history and biography. In
1824, he began lecturing at Lund on the history of literature, and
in 1828 he became librarian to the University. In 1833, he gave up
his librarianship and became pastor at Westerstad and Östraby, in
1847 at Helsingborg, and finally he became Dean of Gottenburg.
Wieselgren is one of the most prolific of Swedish writers, having begun
his literary career as a poet in 1824, under the signature of“ Minne
sånger ur Wärend ." He is best known as the editor of the Archives
of the De la Gardie family (Delagarıliska Arkivet), which since 1848
are preserved in the University Library of Lund, and were published,
in twenty volumes, from 1831 to 1844 ; as the contributor of more than
one hundred biographies to the Swedish “ Biografiskt Lexicon ," and
as the author of a History of Swedish Literature ( Sveriges Sköna
Literatur) in five volumes. He published, besides, a great number
of sermons, and many pamphlets and lectures in the interest of the
temperance movement in Sweden. As a devoted adherent of theLutheran
religion, which is the state religion of Sweden, Wieselgren has shown
himself strongly opposed to Swedenborg, both in his History of
Swedish Literature,” and in the Swedish “ Biografiskt Lexicon," in
which works he gives long extracts from the tirade against Bidenius
Renhorn, which he found in the Archives of Count De la Gardie,
and which, as we have proved in Document 196 (p. 545 to p. 549),
he erroneously ascribes to Swedenborg.
NOTE 141 .
THE DE LA GARDIE FAMILY.
The De la Gardie family is an old and well-known noble family
of Sweden, to which their ancestor, Baron Pontus De la Gardie,
emigrated at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The founder
of the collection called “ Delagardiska Arkivet" was Count Jacob
Gustaf De la Gardie, who was born in 1768, and who died in 1842.
Swedenborg describes in his "Spiritual Diary," n. 1627, a marriage
between the Empress of Russia and De la Gardie. This account,
which he wrote in the Swedish language, was inserted by the librarian
Klemming in his edition of " Swedenborg’s Drömmar," p. 66 to p. 70.
Dr. Kahl in his “ Narratiunculæ " supposes that the De la Gardie
mentioned there is Count Magnus Julius De la Gardie who was
born in 1668, and who died in 1741, and was the grandfather of
the Jacob Gustaf De la Gardie mentioned above.
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