He was then guided by his uncle Henric Benzelius at Lund University and graduated with his Master of Arts degree in 1738, after which he spent a few years in England, France and Holland.

Between 1743 and 1744, he again traveled abroad, and stayed particularly in Helmstedt, where he defended his dissertation under the famous Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, and became an honorary doctor of theology.

He is portrayed as a more capable learned professor and being more appreciated as a friend and family man than being an apt head of a diocese.

The following year he was called, with a plurality vote, to become the bishop of Lund, and though he himself wished to remain in Lund, he was subject to the wishes of Gustaf III, and had to cede his position to Olof Celsius the Younger.

This article contains content from the Owl Edition of Nordisk familjebok, a Swedish encyclopedia published between 1904 and 1926, now in the public domain.