STUDENT YEARS 
55 
Uppsala University honoured and still honours as 
one of its most eminent physicians, and who is rightly 
termed, “ the medical father in our country,” was, 
like Linnaeus, a pupil of Stobaeus, who entertained 
of him, though young, the highest hopes. When 
Rudbeck obtained release from his lectures (p. 28) 
the medical faculty resolved with the approval of its 
most eminent physician, Casten Ronnow, to move 
the Chancellor to appoint Rosen as Adjunct, that is 
Assistant to the Professor, so soon as he had com¬ 
pleted his intended journey abroad, and undergone 
“promotion” [graduated]. To this the Chancellor 
willingly agreed, and assured the said Rosen that he 
should enter upon his duties on his return home, and 
then take up his salary. He came back to Uppsala on 
the 4th March, 1731, and on the 16th of the same 
month began to lecture; soon after, it was decided 
that his salary should be reckoned as from the 
24th December of the previous year. 
Whether Rosen then wished actually to function 
as Adjunct, that is, to take care of the instruction 
(about which an agreement was made between him 
and the medical faculty), is doubtful, but it can hardly 
be characterized as improper. On the contrary he 
might have been justly liable to censure, had he 
desired to withdraw from his duties, and so disappoint 
the trust which was shown him by his appointment as 
teacher in the University. As regards the parties con¬ 
cerned, in this case Rudbeck and Roberg, they could 
not entertain the idea that a young student should 
displace one who for eminent knowledge and skill 
well deserved the post. This feeling is so entirely 
natural, that one would be astonished by its absence. 
All the charges and insults which were directed 
against the Uppsala professors and Rosen by thought¬ 
less memorialists, and afterwards zealously repeated, 
are therefore, to use a mild expression, entirely wide 
of the mark. 
Into the bargain too, Rosen’s return at first caused 
