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Born in Switzerland, Hedlinger studied medal engraving with W. Krauer in Lucern where he became active at the mint in 1713. In 1717 he visited Saint-Urbain in Nancy and worked with de Launay and Coysevox in Paris. He became medalist at the royal mint in Stockholm in 1718 and remained there for twenty-seven years with the exception of trips to work in Italy in 1726, Copenhagen in 1732, Russia in 1735-37, and Switzerland in 1739. After 1745 he lived and worked in Switzerland. Hedlinger is one of the most important eighteenth-century medalists. See Forrer 2, pp. 445-67; 7, p. 432; B. C. K. in ThiemeBecker 16, pp. 218-21 ; Pyke, p. 66. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976