ANNALS 



OF 



PHILOSOPHY. 



MAY, 1825. 



Article I. 



Biography of Baron Abraham Mcolaus Edekraritz* 



The life and history of a man eminent for the zeal and success 

 with which he has cultivated and advanced the arts and sciences, 

 although more peculiarly the property of the country which 

 gives him birth, belong nevertheless to his whole brethren of the 

 civilised world. It is, therefore, with no small degree of plea- 

 sure that we present our readers with the following account of 

 the hfe of Edelcrantz, whose estimation in Europe as a man of 

 science, while he lived, was shown by the number of learned 

 societies that chose him one of their body, and whose merits, 

 now that he is no more, it is not less useful than it is agreeable, 

 impartially to scan and study. 



A. N. Edelcrantz was born in Abo, on the 28th of July, 17o4. 

 While his birth-place was thus situated without the geographical 

 limits of Swden, he is nevertheless most justly claimed as a 

 brother by the Swedes. For his family was of that country, his 

 own life was spent there, his whole exertions were devoted to 

 its service, and reaped for him a rich reward both of emolument 

 and honour. The father of Edelcrantz, Charles Abraham Clew- 

 berg, was Professor of Theology in the University of Abo, 

 deriving his family name from Klew and Alunda, in Upland, of 

 which district an ancestor of his had been Judge. The wife of the 

 Professor was Charlotte Agatha Fahlenius, a daughter of 

 Bihsop Fahlenius, by a lady of Italian origin, whose name was 

 Charlotte Teppati. 



Young A. N. Clewberg did not long enjoy the advantage of the 

 example and direction of his learned father, whom he lost at 

 the tender age of twelve years. But the powers of a mind, hap- 

 pily gifted with natural ability, to which was jo.ned the invalu- 

 able accompaniment of persevering assiduity, had already been 



• From tlie Tramaction* of the Royal Academy of Science* of Stockholm. 



^ew; Series, VOL. IX. v 



