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1242 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 255.
COUNT RUDENSKÖLD.
Carl Rudensköld, Count and Senator, was born in 1698 in Åbo,
where his father was bishop. After finishing his studies in the
University of Upsal he entered the diplomatic service of Sweden, and
in the capacity of a secretary of legation and chargé d’affaires he
was at the courts of Vienna and of Poland. After his return home
in 1738 he was appointed ambassador to Berlin. In 1756 he became
chancellor of the court, and two years later president of the College
of Commerce. In 1761 he was made senator by the party of the
Hats, an office he filled until 1765. In 1770 he was created a count,
and died in 1783. He was a member of almost all the learned bodies
in Sweden, and when Gustavus III ascended the throne in 1772, he
became his successor as chancellor of the University of Upsal. He
had a great reputation for honesty, purity, and nobility of character.
It was Count Rudensköld who addressed to Swedenborg the
question concerning the Prince of Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld, which he
answered in Document 277.
NOTE 256.
LARS VON ENGESTRÖM.
Count Lars von Engeström was the son of Bishop Dr. Engeström
of Schonen, and was born in Lund, in 1751. After passing through
the university of Lund he entered the diplomatic service of Sweden,
where he was employed in various capacities until at last from 1798
to 1803 he was Swedish ambassador at the Court of Berlin. Becoming
dissatisfied with the government of Gustavus IV [Adolphus], he
removed to Poland to the estates of his wife, who was a Polish countess.
In 1809 he was called back to Sweden on the change of the Swedish
dynasty. He was very much in favour of Carl Bernadotte, as Crown
Prince of Sweden, and in 1810 was appointed Prime Minister of
Sweden. In 1824 he resigned his dignities in Sweden, and retired
to his Castle of Jankowitz in Prussian Poland, where he died in
1826.
Count von Engeström’s mother was a daughter of Archbishop
Jacob Benzelius, and thus he became related to the Benzelii and
Benzelstjernas. From Mathias Benzelstjerna, his mother’s brother,
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