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DEAN EKEBOM. 1133
Upsal, and Beyer to Lund. Among twenty members of the gym
nasium who went to the universities, Montin, the dean of the gym
nasium for the time being and the professor of theology, pointed
out these two as classical scholars, who were already able to com
pose short dissertations in the learned languages." This reputation
Lamberg sustained when he travelled abroad in 1753, after having
received the appointment of royal chaplain ; for from the university
of Leyden he received a gold medal for a Latin oration which he
delivered there on the occasion of the birth of a Swedish princess.
Soon after his return home in 1757 he was nominated Bishop of
Gottenburg, and entered upon his office in 1762. He was presented
by Swedenborg in 1766 with a copy of the Apocalypsis Revelata
(see Document 223) ; and a few months later with the Arcana Cœlestia,
which Swedenborg sent to Dr. Beyer instructing him to deliver it
to the Bishop with his best respects (see Document 227). Again
in 1768 Swedenborg sent his best respects to the Bishop through
Dr. Beyer (see Document 237). In the same year in the month of
October the subject of Swedenborg’s writings was brought before
the Consistory of Gottenburg; yet Bishop Lamberg was unwilling
then and there to treat this question in an inquisitorial fashion, and
was inclined to let the whole matter drop (see Document 245, p. 285).
But meanwhile Dr. Ekebom, Dean of Gottenburg, maintained the
opposition, and finally enlisted Bishop Lamberg on his side. Hence
forth, both in Stockholm in the House of the Clergy and in Gotten
burg in the Consistory, Bishop Lamberg remained a zealous opponent
of Swedenborg and of Drs. Beyer and Rosén (see his letter to the
Consistory, Document 244, p. 310). He died in 1780.
NOTE 179.
DEAN OLOF A. EKEBOM.
In Bexell’s History of the Diocese of Gottenburg, 1835 (Göthe
borg’s Stifts Historia och Herdaminne), we find the following account
of this theologian, who organized the first persecution on record
against Swedenborg and his followers in Sweden, (see Document 245).
Doctor Olof A. Ekebom was born in Uddewalla in 1716. In 1730
he entered the gymnasium at Gottenburg. In 1736 he passed to
the university of Upsal, in 1741 to that of Lund. In 1744 he
travelled with a recommendation of Archbishop Jacob Benzelius.7
In 1745 he obtained his degree of Master of Arts. In 1746 he
visited the university at Rostock, and on his return home was
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