Sven Lidman (clergyman)

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

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

Lidman received a PhD from Uppsala University in 1806 and became an ordained clergyman 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.

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