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1140 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
translate the principal parts into Latin" (see Document 236). This
work was published in Zürich from 1768 to 1773, in three volumes.
In 1769 he was appointed minister at the orphan asylum at Zürich,
in which capacity he addressed a second letter to Swedenborg (Docu
ment 242). In 1778 he was chosen assistant minister of the church
of St. Peter at the same place, and in 1786 pastor in chief. His
"Physiognomical Fragments" appeared from 1775 to 1778. His
pastoral activity was extensive, and reached beyond Switzerland into
Germany, where he corresponded with many pious families, and was
consulted in matters of conscience. He displayed much interest in
the public affairs of his country, and preached frankly and openly
against all abuses ; his zeal caused him to be imprisoned in May, 1799.
He was liberated after a few months, and returned to his pastoral
duties in Zürich, where in September of the same year he was shot
by a French soldier, and after a lingering illness died in 1801. Dr.
Im. Tafel says in his edition of the "Documents" (p. 417), "Whether
Swedenborg replied to Lavater’s letters is not known . . But that
Lavater was an apt student of his writings is proved by his disser
tations on the Lord and the doctrine of the Atonement in his posthu
mous writings, which are composed altogether in Swedenborg’s spirit."
That Swedenborg corresponded with Lavater is, however, rendered
evident by Etinger’s letters to Hartmann (Document 314, F) ; for
on September 9, 1771, Etinger wrote that "Swedenborg intended to
visit Lavater," and under the date of September 19 he said that "on
his way to Switzerland Swedenborg would pass through Stuttgart
and Tübingen."
In his work entitled "Materials for the History of the New Church"
(Zur Geschichte der Neuen Kirche) Dr. Im. Tafel refers to the
following anecdote in the "New Jerusalem Journal" for 1792 (p . 268) :
"I must still tell you one anecdote of my late travels concerning
Emanuel Swedenborg, which is this: The famous physiognomist and
divine J. C. Lavater having formerly by letter expressed to me a
desire to get some picture of Swedenborg, I took with me to
Zürich a copy of the doctrine of the New Jerusalem, where you
know a head of Swedenborg’s is prefixed ; and visiting Lavater, I talked
to him of it, and the night before my departure sent him the book.
We travelled at that time in company with a Countess Damas, a lady
of the bed-chamber to the Queen of France, who wanted to stay
one day longer at Zürich, was to rejoin us at Zug, and proposed
to see Lavater the next day after our departure. This occasioned
him to return me the book by the Countess. I had not thought fit,
as I was not alone with him, to ask him any questions about Sweden
borg. But the Countess told me afterwards, that on his entrusting
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