For Sven Lidman (born 1921), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman (lexicographer)

Sven Lidman (lexicographer)

Sven Lidman , was a Swedish lexicographer living in Stockholm, son of the writer Sven Lidman.He was the main editor or managing director of several Swedish encyclopedias, including the 5th edition of Kunskapens bok , Focus , Lilla Focus , Combi Visuell ,...

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Sven Fredrik Lidman, (December 11, 1786 in Norrköping

Norrköping

Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County. The city has a population of 87,247 inhabitants in 2010, out of a municipal total of 130,050, making it Sweden's tenth largest city and eighth largest...

 – March 9, 1845 in Linköping

Linköping

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, was a Swedish clergyman.

Lidman received a PhD from Uppsala University

Uppsala University

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 in 1806 and became an ordained clergyman in the Evangelical-Lutheran state church of Sweden

Church of Sweden

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 in 1811. From 1811 to 1817 he served as a preacher at the Swedish legation in Constantinople (now Istanbul

Istanbul

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). 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

Parliament of Sweden

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

Lidman was a member of the Geatish Society

Geatish Society

The Geatish Society, or Gothic League was created by a number of Swedish poets and authors in 1811, as a social club for literary studies among academics in Sweden with a view to raising the moral tone of society through contemplating Scandinavian antiquity...

, using the pseudonym Sigurd Jorsalefarer.