SOME 
ACCOUNT 
O F 
Dr. HASSE L QJJ I S T, 
Written by 
CHARLES LINN^US, M. D. 
F REDERICK Haflelquift was born the third 
of January 1722, at Tcernvalla in Eaft 
Cothia. His father Andrew Haflelquift, was curate 
there, and had the leaft income of any clergyman 
in the diocefe. He died during the minority of 
his fon, in indigent circumftances ; his mother 
Maria Helena Pontin, being weak both in body 
and mind, was put into the infirmary at Vad- 
ftena. This Frederick therefore would have been 
unnoticed in life, if his uncle, the Rev. Mr. Pontin, 
had not taken compaflionon him, and kept him with 
his children at the fchool in Linkoeping ; but he 
w as foon deprived of this Benefactor, and obliged 
to iupport bimfelf by teaching young children, 
Un t’l he was of age to go to the Univerfity. 
In the year 1741, he came to the Univerfity of 
pfala, where he was obliged to content hirnfelf 
with in (trusting others for trilling gratifications, 
out by this had the advantage cf living conftantly 
at the Univerfity, and daily hearing the ledtures 
? the Profeflors. His inclination was immediate- 
ly “t for Phyfic, and Natural Hiftory loon be- 
tame 1JS favourite lludy, he had alfo lbme talents 
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