Lars Niléhn home. He also had other connections with Sweden. An elder brother, Esaias Pufendorf, was a Swedish diplomat and had arranged for Samuel to be a private tutor to Wilhelm Julius Coyet, son of a Swedish diplomat, first in Copenhagen and later in Leyden.^- Coyet later enjoyed a rather successful career as a civil servant. Pufendorf was offered a chair in Roman law at Heidelberg, but he did not want it. When a chair in jus gentium et naturale was created in 1661, he accepted. It was within the faculty of arts and it was the first of its kind in Germany.^^ This was six years after such a chair had been created at Uppsala. One aim in the establishment of the university at Lund in 1668 was to create a site of learning for the new southern parts of Sweden. Another was to give it a strongly international and learned profile. At the faculty of law this showed in the plans made for a third chair, besides those in Swedish and in Roman law. It was in natural law. There was, however, one condition: that Samuel Pufendorf would accept the offer that the Chancellor of the Realm, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, had made.*^ The latter had been influenced by Esaias Pufendorf and by the students who had visited Heidelberg. Samuel Pufendorf was involved in conflicts at Heidelberg and accepted the chair at Lund, even if the culmination of these feuds did not occur until after he had sent his answer to De la Gardie. It seems that Pufendorf, when he settled in Lund, was well aware of his fame as man of learning and he managed to obtain relatively good economic terms. Despite frequent complaints, he also obtained economic advantages during his later years in Stockholm,^^ in spite of the fact that this was a financially critical time, not least for state servants. In Lund, Pufendorf soon got into a learned conflict with his fellow professor at law, Nicholaus Beckman, and with the theologian Josua Schwartz. In principle it was a question of modern natural law versus orthodox Lutheran conservative jurisprudence. Thus it was, in a way, a continuation of the conflict that previously evolved around Pufendorf’s 56 Oscar Malmström, Samuel Pufendorf och hans arbeten i Sveriges historia, Stockholm 1899, p 95 ff. ibid, p 7 f. Heidelberg, Pufendorf was also the private tutor of the only son of the influential Carl Gustaf Wrangel, Admiral and later Marshal of the Realm. It is, however, not known if Wrangel had anything to do with the calling of Pufendorf to Sweden, Arne Losman, Carl Gustaf Wrangel ocli Europa, Stockholm 1980, p 161. Nevertheless, in 1681 he did write a biography of Wrangel which was very influential for the latter’s image in the posterity, ibid, p 15 f footnote 4. But this may just have been an assignment. Malmströmp 9 f. ibid, p 10 f, 21 ff.
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