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1280 NOTES TO VOLUME 11.
concerning which see Document 313, no. 143 (p. 1012) ; further, the
original copy from which has been translated Document 254, (p. 424).
Among these papers also were copies of the Latin originals of
Document 228, and of Documents 246–248. These copies Dr. A. Kahl
kindly presented to the Editor of these Documents during his stay
in Sweden. Concerning Major Gyllenhaal, who was born in 1752,
and died in 1842 in his ninetieth year, Dr. A. Kahl in his Nya
Kyrkan, &c. (IV, p. 22) furnishes the following account : “Leonard
Gyllenhaal was universally known and respected throughout the
whole of Sweden for his indefatigable activity in the promotion of
the cause of science and manufacture, for his lofty, unprejudiced, and
patriotic sentiments, and for his exemplary Christian life and character.
As the greatest Swedish entomologist of his time, he enjoyed also
a European celebrity, and corresponded with many scientific men
abroad. The great esteem in which he was held by the scientific
world, added weight and importance in the eyes of the public to
the religious ideas which he represented, and for which he lived.
Whilst yet young he was introduced into a knowledge of the
doctrines of the New Church by one of his relatives, ’ Lector’
Wahlfeldt of Skara. After he had arrived at the age of manhood
he translated, copied, and gave away many of Swedenborg’s theolo
gical works, and, during the suppression of the freedom of the press
in Sweden from 1790 to 1810, he laboured in this wise for the
spread of the doctrines of the New Church. Even in advanced
age his countenance brightened up, whenever he met with any
one who shared his religious convictions, and was willing to work
for them. He himself had drawn deeply from the fountain of truth
in the New Church, and in conjunction with his friend Schönherr,
he assisted and supported every literary undertaking for the advance
ment of the New Church. In the help and friendship of these two
men Tybeck (Note 302) found his greatest earthly support. They
collected the funds for his support, which amounted annually to
about 500 or 600 crowns. They also furnished the means for printing
and spreading his writings during his life-time, and they afterwards
took charge of the correspondence and MSS. which he left behind,
and which is still carefully preserved. Gyllenhaal and Schönherr
were justly considered the most influential of all the members ofthe
Society pro Fide et Charitate. Schönherr also had many of Sweden
borg’s smaller writings copied, and he presented these copies to those
who were not able to procure them for themselves."
Gyllenhaal was a member of many scientific societies abroad, of
the Societé Entomologique of Paris, the Entomological Society of
London, and of many others. His work entitled Insecta Suecica
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