Sven Lidman (clergyman)

Sven Fredrik Lidman, (December 11, 1786 in Norrköping – March 9, 1845 in Linköping, was a Swedish priest.

This article is about the Swedish Lutheran priest Sven Lidman. For the Swedish novelist and Pentecostal leader Sven Lidman, see Sven Lidman (writer).
For Sven Lidman (born 1921), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman (lexicographer).
Portrait by Johan Gustaf Sandberg.

Lidman received a PhD from Uppsala University in 1806 and became an ordained priest in the Evangelical-Lutheran state church of Sweden in 1811. From 1811 to 1817 he served as a preacher at the Swedish legation in Constantinople (now Istanbul). In 1817 he got a teaching position in Linköping, where he was appointed cathedral dean (domprost) in 1824. For some years he represented the diocese of Linköping in the parliament.

He is interred in the family grave in the southeast corner of Linköping city cemetery.

Lidman was a member of the Geatish Society, using the pseudonym Sigurd Jorsalefarer.

The Lidman family grave in Linköping, Sweden. Standing cross: the priest. Front black stone: the writer
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