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PRELATE ETINGER. 1135
Åbo ; and in 1757 was appointed bishop in the same place. He
was a constant attendant at the Swedish Diet from 1756 to 1771,
and especially at the memorable Diet of 1760, where he no doubt
made the personal acquaintance of Swedenborg. In 1775 he was
chosen archbishop, and vice-chancellor of the University of Upsal.
These high offices he filled to the end of his life in 1786.
NOTE 181.
BISHOP JACOB SERENIUS.
Serenius was a zealous bishop and politician. He was born in
1700, and after passing through the university at Upsal, was selected
by Bishop Swedberg for the Swedish pastorate in London. He
continued in London as pastor of the Swedish church from 1723 to
1734; and mainly through his instrumentality the Swedish church
in that place was built. In 1734 he saw through the press in
Hamburg his Anglo-Swedish Dictionary. After his return to Sweden
he was appointed rector in Nyköping, and in 1736 was made dean.
In 1752 he was created a doctor of theology, and in 1763 became
Bishop of Strengnäs.
He seems to have been favourably inclined towards Swedenborg;
as the latter presented to him the "Apocalypse Revealed" in 1766 (see
Document 226), and his "True Christian Religion" in 1771 (see
Document 245, p. 384).
NOTE 182.
PRELATE ETINGER.
"Etinger," says the Intellectual Repository for January, 1830
(pp. 1 et seq.), "was a man of distinguished learning and piety,
and highly respected by his countrymen. He was
He was the author
of many works, and attained the highest dignity in the church; he
was appointed by his Serene Highness the Duke of Würtemberg to
the prelacy of Murrhard. He was one of the first in Germany who
became acquainted with the writings of Swedenborg. He translated
many things from the Arcana Cœlestia, and published the first
German translation of the Earths in the Universe. He also published
an analysis of Swedenborg’s Natural Philosophy, and compared it
with his Heavenly Philosophy."
Further particulars respecting his life are as follows : He was
born May 6, 1702, in Göppingen, in the present kingdom of Würtem
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