Jacob Axelsson Lindblom

Jacob Axelsson Lindblom, simply Jacob, Jacob or YES Lindblom ( born July 27, 1746 Skeda, Östergötland ( now part of the municipality of Linköping ), † February 15, 1819 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish philologist and a Lutheran clergyman, Archbishop of Uppsala last. He was one of the leading figures of the Enlightenment in Sweden.

Life

Lindblom, a son of Lutheran pastor Axel Johan Lindblom, enrolled after attending high school in Linköping in 1763 at the University of Uppsala. As early as next year, he moved as a private tutor to a noble family to Livonia, where he spent two years further formed in the private study. Back in Uppsala, he graduated in 1770 with a Master exam. His most important teacher and supporter was the philologist Johan your who offered him a job at the university library. Lindblom rose to 1776 to vice librarian and had next to it since 1773 a lectureship in Latin, which was converted in 1779 as an associate professor. As a close associate of your he participated in his Lexicon Latino Svecanum, which was only completed in 1790. After your death Lindblom has received a prestigious Skytteanische professorship in political rhetoric and in February, 1781.

King Gustav III. , Who had repeatedly visited lectures and disputations Lindblom, appointed him ( despite the lack of theological training) in 1786 as successor to the archbishop appointed Uno by Troil bishop of the Diocese of Linköping. After quickly nachgeholten ordination Lindblom could take office beginning in 1787. By many measures (including the use against illicit distilling and for vaccinations and improved cultivation methods) he ran since the program of Neology, the German Protestant Enlightenment theology, he also spread through translations (including works by Johann Joachim Spalding and Samuel Friedrich Nathanael Morus ). In 1797 he founded the Journal för prester, the first theological journal Sweden, he sat down in addition also for the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, a. As a member of the Estates Reichstag he signed in 1789, representing the diseased Archbishop of association and Sicherheitsacte which assured the king greatly expanded rights.

Despite the opposition of conservative churchmen appointed King Gustav IV Adolf of Troils Lindblom after death in March 1805 Archbishop of Uppsala. Until his death, he served as the highest dignitaries of the Church of Sweden. The most important task he looked at the revision of the ecclesiastical books, which he presented in 1809 a proposal. First, he put 1810 before a new edition of the Catechism explanation of Olof Svebilius. Although it was prescribed by the king not binding, it was in the 19th century mainly in use. The new liturgy of 1811 he was able to influence strongly the spirit of the Enlightenment theology. Less successful were his commitment to a revision of the translation of the Bible, which was completed after his death. Also when creating a new hymnbook followed King Charles XIII. not the draft led by Lindblom Committee but approved in 1819 Johan Olof Wallin's draft as an official hymnal of the Church of Sweden. With its own seal and the translation of a song by Christian Fürchtegott Gellert also Lindblom was represented here.

Honors

Lindblom received in 1793 by the Faculty of Theology in Uppsala doctorate. In 1801 he was admitted as an honorary member of the Kungliga och Vitterhets History Antikvitets Academies, 1809 in the Swedish Academy ( Chair 5). The first clergyman he was in 1818 awarded the Royal Seraphinenorden.

Writings (selection )

• Afsked till presterskapet i Linköpings pen af - orks biskopen .... Linköping 1806.
• Om böcker hörande till the allmänna undervisningen och religionsvården. Memorial ... uppläst i Högv. perst - ståndet the 9 Junii 1809 .... Stockholm 1809.
• Självbiografiska anteckningar från barndoms -och studieåren. Uppsala 1925