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LIBRARIAN GJÖRWELL. 1155
a miner in the capacity of a common labourer, in order to acquire
a practical knowledge of the art of smelting. In 1732, when he was
twenty years of age, he was inscribed in the College of Mines as an
auscultant. He undertook many scientific journeys on foot through
Sweden, Norway, and Finland, in order to enrich his own scientific
acquirements, and to be of use to science and to his country. He
was a large contributor to the Transactions of the Academy of
Sciences; yet many of his discoveries and scientific discussions are
also contained in the letters which he exchanged with the celebrated
mineralogist Axel Cronstedt (Note 107). These letters are preserved
in the Bergius Collection of letters in the Academy of Sciences ; and
among these the editor of these Documents discovered the two letters
contained in Document 249, in which he discusses his acquaintance
with Swedenborg. Baron Tilas became councillor of mines in 1755,
and obtained the appointment of governor (
landshöfding) in 1755.
His valuable collections of mineralogical specimens and other curio
sities were all destroyed in the conflagration of 1751. In 1766 he
was made a baron, and he died in 1772, a few months after Sweden
borg. His first wife, whom he mentions in Document 249, died in
her twenty-second year ; his second wife, whom he married in 1743,
Idied two weeks before him in 1772.
See Note 246.
NOTE 207.
THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.
NOTE 208.
LIBRARIAN GJÖRWELL .
He occupies a
After having
Carl Christopherson Gjörwell was born in 1731.
most important place in Swedish literary history.
passed through the Universities of Åbo and Lund, and having
made a lengthy journey through Europe, he returned to Sweden in
1751, when for a few years he was private tutor in a family with
a view of preparing himself for the post of a missionary among the
heathen. This idea he gave up in 1755 when he entered the Royal
Library in Stockholm as an assistant librarian. At the same time
he started the Svenska Mercurius (The Swedish Mercury), the first
critical journal of Sweden, which in a short time made his name
universally known through Sweden. This journal he published until
1765, when it was succeeded by the Svenska Magazinet (The Swedish
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