the svea court of appeal in the early modern period 314 educated in Uppsala; probably all of the 14 appeal court councillors had studied – one in Lund, the rest in Uppsala; twelve of the 13 assessors had been educated, two of them in Lund. Moving on to 1794, the president had studied in Lund and the vice president in Uppsala. Eight or nine of the ten appeal court councillors910 had been to Uppsala, one to Lund. All of the 14 assessors also had been educated – the studies of one are not specified and he cannot be found in the Uppsala records, one was trained in Lund, and the rest in Uppsala. In the last sample year, 1809, the president is the same as in 1794 and the vice president was another Uppsala student. All of the ten appeal court councillors and eleven assessors had been students – one and two respectively in Lund, and the rest in Uppsala. As we can see, there is practically no change in the number of educated judges and their choice of university since the mid-eighteenth century: courses at a domestic university were common for practically all judges. The age at which the men, or more accurately boys, enrolled at university does not seem to change during the period. Most enrolled during their teens, but there are also a few who went to university in their early twenties.911 The Uppsala matriculation records offer no information on the faculty at which the student was enrolled, so there is only scattered information on the field of study of a few of the judges. Those whose disciplines we do knowof had all read law,912 and in some cases we have information on their dissertations as well.913 Two assessors had a more profound knowledge as Nils Zellén (nob. af Zellén) (1724 – 1806) was juris docens in Uppsala and 910 Three of the appeal court councillors were promoted from assessor in 1794, but here they are counted among the appeal court councillors. 911 We can also find some under ten-year-olds – the youngest being Carl Gustaf Gråstéen, assessor in 1794 and appeal court councillor in 1809, who apparently enrolled in Uppsala at the age of two. Without any further information beside Anjou’s register and the Uppsala records on Gråstéen it is impossible to say if this was actually the case, or if there is a mistake in either his year of birth or the year he matriculated. 912 Eric Benzelius (1754), Wilhelm Noordenhielm (1774), Nils Zellén (1774, 1794), Fredric Gyllenborg (1794), Pehr Liljensparre (1794), Johan Dufwa (1809), Jonas Turdfjaell (1809), Gustaf Hamilton (1809). 913 Benzelius, for instance, had disputed in Lund under David Nehrman in 1732 on the topicDe jure censitico sive Skatte-Rättighet and had in all likelihood written the disputation himself. Östergren points to the differences in opinion between this disputation and Nehrman’s writings, and concludes that like the other disputations he presided over, this work was also written by the respondent. Östergren, P.A. 1900 pp. 108, 11. Despite being written by Nehrman’s young student, this disputation was of excellent quality, see Björne, Lars 1995 p. 78. For the other dissertations, see Anjou, A. 1899, pp. 52, 57, 105, 138-139, 144; Westman, Karl Gustaf 1929.
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