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Biography

Name: Emanuel Swedenborg
Birth Date: January 29, 1688
Death Date: March 29, 1772
Place of Birth: Uppsala, Sweden
Place of Death: London, England
Nationality: Swedish
Gender: Male
Occupations: scientist, theologian, mystic

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Biography of Emanuel Swedenborg
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The Swedish scientist, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) founded a religious system known as Swedenborgianism, ideas of which were incorporated in the Church of the New Jerusalem. Emanuel Swedenborg was born Emanuel Swedberg on Jan....


Quotations
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Emanuel Swedenborg Quotes
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Emanuel Swedenborg ( 29 January 1688 - 29 March 1772 ) Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist. Sourced Man knows that love is, but not what it is. Divine Love and Wisdom #1 A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can...


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Emanuel Swedenborg Summary
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1688-1772 Swedish chemist, engineer, and mystic who published one of the first up-to-date accounts of mining and smelting techniques during the eighteenth-century. As with other influential publications of this era, Swedenborg's book was one of...
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Emanuel Swedenborg Summary
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1688-1772 Swedish natural philosopher and mystic widely remembered for founding a religious sect that maintains a loyal following to this day. Though his scientific interests were manifold, Swedenborg's most significant contributions were to...
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Swedenborg, Emanuel (1688–1772) Summary
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Swedenborg, Emanuel(1688–1772) Emanuel Swedenborg, the scientist, biblical scholar, and mystic, was a member of a famous Swedish family of clergymen and scholars; his father was a prominent bishop and a prolific writer. Swedenborg studied the...
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Swedenborg, Emanuel Summary
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SWEDENBORG, EMANUEL (1688–1772), was a multifaceted genius, scientist, and visionary. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 29, and he died in London on March 29. Paradox surrounds Swedenborg's intellectual legacy. The scientific...
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Emanuel Swedenborg Information
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Emanuel Swedenborg (help·info) (born Emanuel Swedberg; February 8,[1] 1688–March 29, 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic,[2][3] and theologian. Swedenborg had a prolific career as an inventor and scientist. At the age...


News and Journals
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Scandinavian Studies
The Dream of an Absolute Language: Emanuel Swedenborg and French Literary Culture. (book reviews)
09/22/1997: 871 words, approx. 3 pages
Lynn R. Wilkinson. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996. Pp. 332 Occasionally a book appears that has needed to be written for some time. Such a book identifies important strains of literary, critical discussion and contributes significantly to extending the horizons within a given...
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Utopian Studies
Ernst Benz. Emanuel Swedenborg: Visionary Savant in the Age of Reason.(Book Review)
01/01/2003: 1,499 words, approx. 5 pages
Intr. and trans. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation, 2002. xxi + 536 pp. $24.95 IT HAS TAKEN OVER FIFTY YEARS for Ernst Benz's work, surely the most substantial and scholarly study of the eighteenth-century scientist and visionary by a non-Swedenborgian,...
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The New York Observer
Mr. Bellow's Planet: Amis, McEwan Snatch Saul's Herring Soul
4/17/2005: 2,639 words, approx. 9 pages
One opened The New York Times expectantly, two days after Saul Bellow's death, ready for the Op-Ed tributes that seemed as certain to appear as The Times itself: Surely one or more of American literature's surviving phallocrats, a Mailer or a Roth or an Updike,...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by William White
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In the essays which follow, White offers synopses and analyses of three of Swedenborg's greatest scientific-philosohicial works. He also describes the contents of three of Swedenborg's most important works of theology.
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Critical Essay by Inge Jonsson
12,470 words, approx. 42 pages
In the first essay below, Jonsson examines the historical period in which Swedenborg lived and wrote before presenting an introductory biographical sketch of and presenting an overview of his most important works. In the second, she offers an analysis of Swedenborg's importance in the history of ideas, noting particularly his influence on writers such as William Blake, Henry James, Ralph Waldo Emerson, W. B. Yeats, Honoré Balzac, Victor Hugo, and George Sand.
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Critical Essay by Bernhard Lang
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In the following essay, Lang argues that Swedenborg was largely responsible for the shift in the eighteenth century from the “theocratic” scholastic model, in which Christians focused on the divine, to an “anthropocentric” model that emphasizes the human element, and that he gave the new model its most intellectually satisfying and emotionally relevant form.
 


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