The Mortal Remains of Swebexboeg 



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the Royal Academy of Sciences a burial lot to receive his coffin 

 had been bought in Solna churchyard in the immediate vicinity of 

 Stockholm, where many of the most celebrated sons of the country 

 already rested. The circumstance that Swedenboeg's father, Jespee 

 SwEDBEECi, lay buried in Warnhem, argued in a certain measure in 

 favor of this old church in Westrogothia, so rich in ancient memories. 

 Nevertheless, because of a request from Upsala University and from the Ca- 

 thedral Chapter of Upsala, and especially because of the exertions of Rector 

 Henrik Schuck and Professor Herman Lundström, the Government decided 

 in favor of Upsala Cathedral, where Swedenboeg's noble and pious 

 mother, Saea Behm, and 

 his older broi her, Albertus, 

 deceased in youthful years, 

 had found a resting-place 

 in 1696, and where Swe- 

 denborg's remains were 

 now to lie in peace by the 

 side of such great geniuses 

 as Carl von Linné and 

 Olof Rudbeck, Sr. It was 

 also in Upsala that Swe- 

 denborg's childhood and 

 student years had been 

 passed and where his in- 

 terest for scientific research 

 had first been awakened. 

 At one o'clock on 

 the 19th of May, 1908, Swe- 

 denborg's casket was re- 

 ceived with great solem- 

 nities at the Upsala railway 



depot, and borne in CeremO- ^"'S- "'■ Inleiior of the Cathedral in Upsala. 



nious procession through the fiag-adorned city to the Cathedral, where it 

 was temporarily placed in the Liewen-Bjelke chapel in the southern 

 aisle of the church. (Fig. S). 



On the motion of J. F. Nyström a proposal was introduced into 

 the First Chamber of the Swedish Parliament, in February, 1909, to 

 the effect that an appropriation of 10,000 kronor should be made to 

 provide for a sarcophagus for Swedenboeg's remains in Upsala Cathe- 



