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DR. WETTERBERGH. 1249
of poetry borrowed from France, he instituted the Aurora Club,
among whose members besides Atterbom, were Palmblad, Ingelgren,
Hedborn, Elgström, and several others. In 1710 they started a
periodical, called "Fosforos" (Phosphorus, the light-bearer) as the
exponent of their ideas, after which as a party or a school they
were called the "Fosforists." From 1812 to 1822 Atterbom pub
lished the "Poetical Almanac," which contained many of his smaller
poetical effusions. The years 1817 to 1819 he spent abroad in Italy
and Germany mainly on account of his health. On his return home
he was appointed German tutor of Prince Oscar. In 1824 he was
appointed extraordinary, and in 1828 ordinary, professor of theoretical
philosophy; but in 1835 he exchanged the professorship of philosophy
for that of æsthetics and modern literature. He died in July, 1855.
NOTE 263.
BARON VON BESKOW.
Bernhard von Beskow, the Swedish poet, critic, and historian
was born in 1796. He distinguished himself at an early period by
his poetical effusions, and in 1824 obtained the great prize of the
Swedish Academy by a poem entitled "Sweden’s Ancestry" (Sveriges
Anor). In 1828 he was chosen a member of the Swedish Academy,
and in 1834 became its permanent secretary. In this capacity he
wrote his Biography of Swedenborg, which was read before the
Swedish Academy, and which is justly admired for the impartial
and unprejudiced spirit in which it is written, and for the exactness
and accuracy of its facts-the very reverse in this respect of
Fryxell’s production (see Note 254). Baron von Beskow died on
October 18, 1868.
NOTE 264.
DR. WETTERBERGH.
Carl Anton Wetterbergh, known in Sweden under the pseudonym
of Uncle Adam, was born in 1804. He studied medicine, and for
many years acted as army-surgeon. In 1840 he appeared as an
author, and in a short time became one of the most popular writers
in Sweden. In 1848 appeared his sketches, called "Attartaflan,"
which contain the attractive sketch of Swedenborg’s gardener-folks,
contained in Document 292. His collected writings appeared in ten
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