 He received a thorough education from his teacher Mattias Björnklou, and was in 1639 elected "rector illustris" at Uppsala University, thanks to his ancestry; this position put a student on a board that oversaw the university, in the hopes that he could influence the government on economic matters favor of university through his relatives and other high level contacts.The next year, he travelled abroad to complete his training.Much of this period was spent in France and the Netherlands.