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1232 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
he was appointed "lector" (professor) of eloquence and poetry in
Hernösand. History had always been his favourite subject, and he
soon began to make collections of papers and MSS. throwing light
on Swedish history. In 1782, on Gjörwell’s advice, Gustavus III
summoned Nordin to Stockholm in order that he might collect and
edit a Corpus Diplomaticum . "While thus engaged," says the
"Biografiskt Lexicon," "he was brought into intimate relations with
the King, who discovered in him an instrument willing to carry out
his despotic projects and also able to work for the King among the
clergy." Soon he began to reap the benefit of the royal favour. He
was appointed one of the first members of the Swedish Academy,
and after being ordained into the ministry, he was presented with
the living of Skellefteå, retaining, however, his position as lector in
Hernösand. In advancing the King’s plans among the clergy, he
worked in the same field with Bishop Wallquist, another of the
King’s tools, who also had much influence among them. Nordin
and Wallquist, however, did not work together, but sometimes
advised the King to take opposite measures. So Nordin in 1789
advised the King to arrest the refractory nobles, to which measure
Wallquist was violently opposed. "Nordin, on that occasion," says
the "Biografiskt Lexicon," "was so extreme (så förgått sig) that
Wallquist afterwards had constantly the preference with the King.
Gustavus, nevertheless, often followed Nordin’s advice, and he was
still admitted to the private deliberations which the King held with
his trusty friends. There is no doubt that Nordin was the most
learned among Gustavus’s camarilla.”
On the King’s decease in 1792, Nordin was sent back to Hernö
sand to his lectorate, and he continued there during the following
years, until in 1800 he became Dean of East Ångermanland, and
was created a doctor of divinity, and in 1805 he was appointed
Bishop of Hernösand. He died in 1812. His collection of historical
MSS. and papers was purchased in 1814 by the Crown-Prince Carl
Johan and presented to the Library at Upsal, where together with
the collections of Palmsköld it constitutes "the richest source for
investigations into Swedish history."
Among these papers are also his Dagboks anteckningar (Notes
in his Diary) for the years 1786-1792, which were published in
the Historiska Handlingar (Historical Transactions), Vol. VII, 1868.
Among these "Notes" is that of which we gave a translation in
Document 276, B, p. 675, and in which Nordin seeks to confirm the
account of the "Berlinische Monatsschrift." On p. 676 we pointed
out the historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies which are con
tained in this account.
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