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J. C. WILCKE. 1251
See Note 308.
NOTE 267.
WM. WHITE.
NOTE 268.
C. BENZELSTJERNA.
Carl Benzelstjerna, who in the name of Swedenborg’s heirs
transferred the MSS. of Emanuel Swedenborg to the care of the
Academy of Sciences in Stockholm (see Document 304, p. 786), was
the son of Lars Benzelstjerna (Note 8) and Swedenborg’s sister
Hedwig. See Document 9, no. 5, p. 91 .
NOTE 269.
P. W. WARGENTIN.
Peter Wm. Wargentin, a disciple of Klingenstjerna293 and Celsius,
was an astronomer and mathematician of note. In 1749 he was
appointed Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, which office he
filled for thirty-four years. He received the Swedenborg MSS . from
his heirs in 1772 ; and by his permission some of these MSS. were
taken abroad in 1783, in order to be printed in England (see Docu
ment 309, p. 805). Among his letters, which are preserved in the
Academy of Sciences, the Editor of these Documents discovered one
that was addressed to him by Count Höpken after Swedenborg’s
death; it is printed in Note 28, Vol. I, p. 633. Wargentin was
born in 1717, and he died in 1783.
NOTE 270.
J. C. WILCKE.
John Carl Wilcke, was Wargentin’s successor as secretary to the
Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, and in that capacity he prepared
the Official Catalogue of the Swedenborg MSS., which constitutes
Document 308. He was born in 1732 in Stockholm, where his father
was minister of the German congregation. In 1759 he was appointed
"lector" in experimental physics in Stockholm, and in 1770 received
the title of professor. In 1784 he became secretary to the Academy,
and died in 1796.
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