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1250 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
volumes from 1869-1874. From 1862 to 1871 he edited the
"Linea" a well-known Swedish magazine for children, which contains
his last contributions to literature. Since 1871 he has ceased to write.
NOTE 265.
G. SWEDERUS.
George Swederus, who furnished to our collection no. 2 of Docu
ment 291 , was born in 1796. After passing through the University
of Upsal, he devoted himself to political economy. He has written
a great number of books and newspaper articles. The number of
his original writings, without counting his translations from other
languages, is estimated at fifty. The old lady, whom he mentions
in his account, and whose maiden name was Hellstedt, is his own
mother, Hedwig Juliana Hellstedt.
NOTE 266.
H. G. PORTHAN.
Henry Gabriel Porthan, according to the "Biographiskt Lexicon,"
Vol. XVI, p. 338, was the Finnish scholar who figures in Atterbom’s
anecdote about Swedenborg, viz. Document 290. The same is stated
by Dr. J. J. Garth Wilkinson in his "Life of Swedenborg" (p. 160),
where he says, "Bishop , Porthan’s disciple, and Atterbom’s
friend, and still alive in February, 1844, is the authority for the
narration, as Professor Atterbom has himself informed us." On p. 721
we have stated our objections to the authenticity of some portions
of this narrative.
Porthan was born in Finland in 1739. In 1754 he graduated
with the highest honours in the University of Åbo, where soon after
he was appointed lecturer on eloquence, and in 1772 librarian. In
1777 he was elected professor of eloquence, and in that capacity he
became one of the most distinguished professors in the history of
the University of Åbo. He died in 1804.
According to the "Biographiskt Lexicon" he entered upon his
journey abroad in 1779; thus seven years after Swedenborg’s
departure from this world. And even his biographer expresses
doubts as to whether he came as far as England, as he had to
borrow the money for his journey. This throws an additional doubt
on the genuineness of the anecdote related concerning him by
Atterbom.
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