Jacob Axelsson Lindblom

• Type — Archbishop • Honorific Prefix — The Most Reverend • Name — Jacob Axelsson Lindblom • Title — Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of Sweden • Church — Church of Sweden • Archdiocese — Uppsala • Appointed — 1805 • Term — 1805–1819 • Term End — 15 February 1819 • Predecessor — Uno von Troil • Successor — Carl von Rosenstein • Ordination — 19 December 1786 • Ordained By — Uno von Troil • Consecration — 1 March 1787 • Consecrated By — Uno von Troil • Rank — Metropolitan Archbishop • Born — 27 July 1746 • Birthplace — Skeda, Östergötland, Sweden • Died — 2 December 1836 • Place of death — Uppsala, Sweden • Parents — Axel Johan Lindblom Regina Margaretha Pallavicini • Spouse — Margareta Fondin (1780–1783) Sofia Ulrica Söderberg (1784–1819) • Children — Lars Axel Lindblom Gustaf Adolf Lindblom • Previous Post — Bishop of Linköping (1786–1805) • Alma Mater — University of Uppsala

Axelsson Lindblom was born at Skeda in Östergötland, the son of a clergyman. He received his secondary education at Linköping gymnasium and matriculated at Uppsala University in 1763. He became student of the philologist Johan Ihre and the Latinist Petrus Ekerman (1696–1783) who was also inspector of the student society Östgöta nation (Uppsala). He worked as a tutor for a noble family in Livonia from 1764 to 1766, came back to Uppsala where he completed his magister degree in 1770. After having worked as a docent and a librarian at the university library, he became an extraordinary professor in 1779 and was appointed to the Skyttean professorship of Eloquence and Political Science in 1781, after the death of his teacher Johan Ihre. Axelsson Lindblom published a History of Roman Literature (Illustriores linguæ Romanæ critici) and collaborated with Ihre on a Lexicon Latino-Svecanum, which he was eventually to complete in 1790. He published prolifically historical, literary and other topics, but is not regarded as particularly original in his scholarly production. Axelsson Lindblom was a favorite of King Gustavus III, who made him Bishop of Linköping in December 1786, nor withstanding the fact he had never been ordained, a situation remedied a few days after the appointment. As bishop he succeeded Uno von Troil, who had been made Archbishop of Uppsala, and in 1805 he succeeded von Troil as archbishop of Uppsala as well, an appointment which also made him pro-chancellor of the university. He was elected a member of the Swedish Academy in 1809, and was awarded a knighthood in the Order of Seraphim in 1818. His children were raised to the nobility with a change of surname to Lindersköld.

His recorded confession was Lutheranism. He was the child of Axel Johan Lindblom and Regina Margareta Pallavicino. He married Sofia Ulrica Lindblom. One child is recorded: Axel Johan Lindersköld.

Recorded positions include Bishop of Linköping, Archbishop of Uppsala, member of the Riksdag of the Estates, President of the Clergy Estate and seat 5 of the Swedish Academy. He belonged to Swedish Academy, Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg and Royal Order of the Polar Star.

Jacob Axelsson Lindblom is recorded as having received Royal Order of the Seraphim and Commander of the Order of the Polar Star.

• Nordisk familjebok, vol. 16 (1912), col. 588f (in Swedish) • Illustration — Karl XIV Johans kröning by Per Krafft the Younger (1818) depicting the coronation of Charles XIV John by Archbishop of Uppsala Jacob Axelsson Lindblom