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COUNT WELLINGK. 1269
NOTE 296.
JACOB A MELLE.
Jacob à Melle, Swedenborg’s correspondent on the subject of the
fluctuations of the primeval sea (see Document 313, no. 27, p. 900),
was born in Lübeck in 1659. Being the son of a wealthy merchant
he was educated under the superintendence of his godfather, Pastor
Krechtling. He commenced his studies in the university of Kiel,
and finished them in 1676 at Jena, where he passed four years at
the house of G. Sagittarius. After visiting the Netherlands, England,
and France he returned home in 1684, when he was appointed
assistant minister of the church of St. Mary in his native town. In
1706 he was made pastor in chief, and continued in this office until
the time of his death. He published many works which treat mainly
on numismatics, and the history of Lübeck. From 1698-1700 he
edited the Nova literaria maris Balthici (Literary news of the
Baltic Sea), in which appeared many of his papers and dissertations .
He died in 1743.
NOTE 297.
COUNT WELLINGK.
Count Maurice Wellingk, who was when Swedenborg dedicated
to him the poem described in Document 313, no. 34 (p. 905)
in the zenith of his power. He was then minister plenipotentiary
at the Congress of Brunswick (see Anrep, IV, p . 577), and there
Swedenborg must have met him; for his poem is dated Brunswick,
April 2. While in Germany Wellingk intrigued at the court of
Prussia in favour of the enlargement of the Swedish Royal power,
by negotiating there for a private loan to be made to the King of
Sweden. A few years later he opposed the King and Arvid Horn
in the choice of a successor to the Swedish throne, when King
Frederic, in order to rid himself of Wellingk, communicated the
papers concerning the secret loan to the Swedish Diet. This resulted
in the condemnation of Wellingk; his coat-of-arms was removed
from the House of Lords (Riddarhuset), he was deprived of all his
dignities and posts of honour, and condemned to imprisonment for
life in the castle of Linköping. On the journey thither he became
ill and died, in 1727.
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