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1270 NOTES TO VOLUME II.
NOTE 298.
LANDGRAVE WILLIAM OF HESSE-CASSEL.
William, Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, to whom Swedenborg dedi
cated Volume II of his Opera Philosophica et Mineralia (see Docu
ment 313, no. 45, p. 910), was a younger brother of King Frederic
of Sweden. After the death of his father in 1730 the King of
Sweden assumed the throne of Hesse-Cassel, under the title of
Frederic I, and appointed his brother William his vice-gerent. When
Frederic died in 1751 without issue, his brother William was his
successor as Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, under the title of William VIII.
During the Seven years’ war William was the ally of Great Britain,
and fought with Frederic the Great against France and Austria.
His soldiers obtained much glory in that war, but the country was
more and more impoverished. William died in 1760,
NOTE 299.
J. BJÖRNSTJERNA.
Johan Björnstjerna, who at the instance of the Philanthropic
Exegetic Society in 1787 compiled the first complete catalogue of
the Swedenborg MSS. (see Document 397, p. 794), was a literary
gentleman, well known by several bibliographical compilations. He
also compiled the first complete catalogue of the printed works of
Swedenborg. Both this catalogue and that of the Swedenborg MSS.
were originally in the library of Lars von Engeström,256 and are
now preserved in the Royal Library of Stockholm. In the latter
catalogue Björnstjerna attributes to Swedenborg the work entitled:
Dilucidationes de Origine Animæ, &c. which is discussed in Docu
ment 313. He also mentions him as the author of a work entitled :
Apologia principii resolutionis virium, contra Sam. Clark apud
Anglos, which appeared in Stockholm, in 1765, as an octavo Volume.
As his authority for this statement he says, "In a manuscript of
3 vols. 4to, entitled Bibliotheca illustris, written by Justice (Lagman)
Apelblad Swedenborg is mentioned as author of this apology." It
is needless for us to state here that Apelblad’s statement has not
been verified, and that the above work was not written by Sweden
borg.
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