 On the 20May that year, Johannes Bureus who was a prominent rune researcher and King Gustavus Adolphus' private teacher, was appointed the first "riksantikvarien" ("National Antiquarian").Bureus' teachings had made the king interested in ancient monuments and national heritage sites and artifacts, at that time called "antiquities".Together with a priest and a young student, Bureus went on a journey through Sweden to draw and document runestones, collect old coins, chronicles, law books, letter and manuscripts.