Sven Lidman (clergyman), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish clergyman
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Place of Birth: Norrköping, Östergötland County, Sweden
About Sven Lidman (clergyman)
- For Sven Lidman (born 1921), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman (lexicographer). Sven Fredrik Lidman, (December 11, 1786 in Norrköping – March 9, 1845 in Linköping, was a Swedish priest. 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.
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