from well-travelled – marianne vasara-aaltonen 313 court councillors (hovrättsråd)906 and ten assessors – the president, Count Hans von Fersen (1683 – 1748), being the only one of whose education there is no mention anywhere. Of the remaining twenty judges, one had studied in Turku and the rest in all likelihood in Uppsala. But by now only four had studied abroad. Adlerberg, now appeal court councillor, was already mentioned among the 1714 judges. Appeal court councillor Johan Flach (1657 –1734) was born in Strassburg, so his “foreign” education there was no surprise. He became juris licentiate in Strassburg in 1684, one year before moving to Sweden and, after becoming assessor at the Svea Court of Appeal in 1726, he obtained a doctorate in law from Strassburg the same year. The two others are only mentioned to have “studied abroad.” Again there is little information on the contents of the courses. Adlerberg and Flach are the only ones of whose law studies we know with certainty. It is also known that a few spent quite a long time studying in Uppsala. Isaac Perman (nob. Olivecrona) (1681 –1764) published a book, Kort samling om ursprung till åtskilliga folkslagar, later in his life, in 1746.907 While the early eighteenth century still witnessed some judges who had studied abroad, coming to the mid-eighteenth century, it becomes clear that a domestic education was the path to an assessorship. Starting with the sample year 1754, education abroad practically disappeared. There is only one judge, Samuel Roselius (1686 – 1773), who had been on study journeys, but he was already a judge in 1734, so he essentially still represents an earlier period. Uppsala was the chosen university for an overwhelming majority, but there are also a few who went to Lund or Turku.908 In 1754, the numbers are following: both the president and vice president went to Uppsala. Of the ten appeal court councillors nine or ten909 had studied – one in Turku and the rest in Uppsala. Ten of the twelve assessors had been students – eight in Uppsala and one in Turku. Twenty years later, the situation is similar: the president and vice president were 906 One of them had moved up to the rank of appeal court councillor during the year. 907 Anjou, A. 1899 pp. 11, 87, 89-90. 908 Anjou’s records suggest that in 1774 a number of assessors and in 1794 a number of appeal court councillors had no training, but comparing the names with the Uppsala matriculation records reveals that most of them had indeed also studied in Uppsala. 909 Anjou lists one as having studied in Uppsala, but he cannot be found in the Uppsala matriculation records. Domestic University Education: 1754 –1809
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