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JOHN CHRISTIAN CUNO. 1159
poem entitled : Gustavus Wasa, in seven cantos, which was printed
in 1744.
In a letter dated Wilikala, May 13, 1793, the editor of these
Documents found the following statement : "A certain Magister
Lindegren from Upsal, who is private tutor to the sons of Baron
Wrede, said that his father, who was Dean (Prost) in Lindesberg,
and had previously been long pastor in Linden, had several letters
from Assessor Swedenborg, but among them scarcely more than one
of importance; this treats of justification by faith alone. But to
another clergyman, of the name of Capke, Swedenborg wrote many
letters of importance ; these are now said to be owned by Bishop
Celsius in Lund, who reads them often, but is very cautious abont
them, and preserves them carefully."
NOTE 212.
JOHN CHRISTIAN CUNO.
J. C. Cuno, known also in New Church literature as David Paulus
ab Indagine, the name under which he addressed a letter to Sweden
borg (Document 256, C), was a merchant and banker in Amsterdam.
In 1769 he made the acquaintance of Swedenborg there, and has preserv
ed to us one of the most interesting accounts of him which we have;
it constitutes Document 256, pp. 441 to 485. This account is con
tained in Cuno’s autobiography, of which all that concerns Sweden
borg was published in 1858 by Dr. Aug. Scheler under the title,
"Jottings ofan Amsterdam citizen upon Swedenborg" (Aufzeichnungen
eines Amsterdamer Bürgers über Swedenborg). For further parti
culars, see the Introduction to Document 256, p. 441. In these
"Jottings" Dr. Scheler communicates also the leading events of
Cuno’s life, as he collected them from his autobiography. We quote
the following particulars:
Cuno was born in 1708 in Berlin, where his father had a
lucrative business, which enabled him to give his son an excellent
education. From 1715 to 1722 he was in the Gymnasium "zum
grauen Kloster.
" After finishing his course, he was appointed
private tutor in the house of his former professor, J. L. Frisch.
At that time the recruiting officers were constantly about, and in
order to protect himself from them, he had his lodgings for two years
inside the walls of the gymnasium. In 1724, however, when he was
scarcely sixteen years of age, he was pressed into the army in spite
of all the protests of the authorities of the gymnasium. After three
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