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Its original name was the London Society for Printing and Publishing the Works of Emanuel Swedenborg. [1] The Society's headquarters, Swedenborg House, is a grade II listed building, built as a residence in about 1760 and acquired by the Society in 1925. [2]
Memorial plaque at the former location of Swedenborg's house at Hornsgatan on Södermalm, Stockholm.. Swedenborg's father, Jesper Swedberg (1653–1735), descended from a wealthy mining family, bergsfrälse (early noble families in the mining sector), the Stjärna family, of the same patrilineal background as the noble family Stiernhielm, the earliest known patrilineal member being Olof ...
Supposedly, Swedenborg declared later in the evening that the fire was stopped three buildings from his own – as it indeed was. In the original Swedish edition of Lars Berquist's biography of Swedenborg, the date of the dinner in question is given as "July 29," [ 4 ] but in the English translation this is corrected to "July 19," the very day ...
Stephen McNeilly (born 1968) is a London-based artist and writer whose research-lead practice includes photography, filmmaking, curating and book publishing. [1] He is the executive director and museum director of the Swedenborg Society, London, [2] [3] and oversees its annual Swedenborg Film Festival [4] and Artist in Residence programme. [5]
Swedenborg was relatively unknown until 1759, when a fire broke out in Stockholm and threatened to burn down his house and his writings. At a dinner in Gothenburg , 480 kilometres (300 mi) away, he reportedly turned pale and described to the guests exactly what was happening until the fire was put out (three houses away from his house).
Hindmarsh found first three other readers of Swedenborg: Peter Prow, William Bonington, and John August Tulk. They organized a public meeting of readers of Swedenborg with an advertisement in the newspaper. The meeting took place on 5 December 1783 [1] at the "London Coffee House" on Ludgate Hill. They were joined by one other member, William ...
The surveys found two previously unidentified medieval buildings within the house and garden, but a vital clue that helped to date the site and identify the palace was a latrine, or a toilet ...
The city was divided into districts headed by fire chiefs, and building owners were required to have some fire equipment, such as filling the house with water barrels during the summer. [3] Stockholm Fire called out, 1880s. When a fire broke out, church bells would ring and the care tower (watch tower) on Brunk Hill would hoist different signals.