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1154 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 204.
ASSESSOR QUECKFELT.
Assessor Samuel Gustavus Queckfelt of the Court of Appeals at
Jönköping, it seems, wrote to Swedenborg in 1771 , that if he would
present himself in person before the Privy Council, a turn in the
affair of Drs. Beyer and Rosén might be brought about. Among
the members of the Exegetic-Philanthropic Society there was a
lieutenant by the name of Queckfelt, who was probably a relation
of the assessor. The assessor was born in 1720, he was removed
from office in 1775, on account of some alleged irregular practices,
and died in 1786.
NOTE 205,
THE LANDGRAVE OF HESSE-DARMSTADT.
Ludwig IX, Swedenborg’s correspondent (Documents 246 and
247), was born in 1719. History reports but little respecting him.
His country was deeply in debt when he ascended the throne in
1768, wherefore he summoned Baron von Moser in order that he
might improve the condition of the country. His reforms operated
very beneficially, but he was opposed in many quarters, and was at
last brought by his enemies before the courts of the land. Land
grave Ludwig, as to his own person, was frugal, and retrenched
the expenses of his court, which he removed from Darmstadt to
Pirmasens. He was fond, however, of military affairs, and proud of
his regiment of grenadiers, which was trained according to the
Prussian system. The castle in which he resided at Pirmasens was
destroyed during the wars which followed the French revolution.
He died in 1790. A beautiful Monument to his memory was erected
in the evangelical church at Pirmasens. His minister Venator, to
whom Swedenborg likewise addressed a letter, is not known to history.
NOTE 206.
BARON TILAS .
Baron Daniel Tilas was in a certain sense Swedenborg’s successor
in the College of Mines, as his salary as assessor was the half which
Swedenborg gave up after 1736. He was a learned but eccentric
man. After finishing his studies in Upsal, he entered the service o
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