The Swedenborg Foundation fosters broad engagement with the ideas and writings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), the eighteenth-century scientist, philosopher, and mystic. The Foundation translates Swedenborg’s works and publishes contemporary and scholarly books and other media that explore Swedenborg’s ideas and how they relate to a variety of modern professions and interests in consciousness, spirituality, psychology, health, and ecology. The non-profit was founded in 1849 and chartered by the state of New York in 1850 as the American Swedenborg Printing and Publishing Society. The organization was renamed the Swedenborg Foundation in 1928.