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1248 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 261.
PROFESSOR SCHERER.
Concerning Professor Scherer, from whom is derived Document 289,
Dr. Im. Tafel in the fourth Volume of his Documents concerning
Swedenborg furnishes the following particulars: Dr. John Benedict
von Scherer, professor of the French language in the University of
Tübingen, was born in Strasburg in 1741. After finishing his studies
in the university of his native place, and taking the degree of doctor
of philosophy, he travelled abroad, and spent some time in Jena,
Leipzig, and Freiberg, devoting himself to jurisprudence. After ob
taining the degree of doctor of laws, he entered into the diplomatic
service of France, and at various times was attached to the embassies
at St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Berlin. At last he
received an appointment in the department of foreign affairs in
Versailles ; but between 1780 and 1790 he was released from his
office at his own request, and retired to Strasburg. There he soon
obtained a place among the civic authorities, and was made a member
of the town-senate. After the French revolution he went to Baden
Baden on account of his health, and while there was put into the
list of the émigrés, and thus expatriated. For a time he was
employed in the war-department of Austria, but at last accepted
the professorship of the French language in Tübingen; and it was
there that Dr. Im. Tafel made his acquaintance between 1818-1821,
and derived from him his information about Swedenborg.
NOTE 262.
PROFESSOR ATTERBOM.
In his celebrated work Svenska Siare och Skalder (Swedish
Seers and Poets) Atterbom introduced an article on Swedenborg,
in which is contained the anecdote communicated in Document 290.
On p. 721 we stated our reasons why we cannot attach to it impli
cit credence. Atterbom was the head of the romantic school of
poetry and criticism which arose in Sweden at the beginning of the
present century, and as a lyric poet he occupies one of the highest
places among the poets of Sweden. From the Svenskt Biographiskt
Handlexicon we gather the following particulars of his life: Per
Daniel Amadeus Atterbom was born January 19, 1790. Soon after
his arrival at Upsal in conjunction with some of his friends, who
like him were opposed to the merely intellectual and didactic style
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