Sven Lidman (clergyman)
Sven Fredrik Lidman | |
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| Born | 11 December 1786 Norrköping, Sweden |
| Died | 9 March 1845 (aged 58) Linköping, Sweden |
| Alma mater | Uppsala University |
| Occupation(s) | Lutheran priest and Orientalist |
Sven Fredrik Lidman (11 December 1786 – 9 March 1845) was a Swedish priest and Orientalist.
Lidman was born in Norrköping, Sweden and received a PhD from Uppsala University in 1806 and became an ordained priest in the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Sweden in 1811; in the same year he was also appointed as a lecturer of Arabic.[1]
From 1811 to 1817, he served as a preacher at the Swedish legation in Constantinople (now Istanbul) where he purchased a number of antiquities from the French team at Luxor from Deir el-Medina; while Lidman's notebooks of his travels in Egypt survived, the collection was destroyed in fire in Constantinople in 1818.[2] In 1817, he obtained a teaching position in Linköping, where he was appointed cathedral dean (domprost) in 1824. He represented the diocese of Linköping in the parliament.
Death and legacy[edit]
He died in 1845 in Linköping, aged 58, and 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.
References[edit]
- ^ Opuscula Atheniensia. C.W.K. Gleerup. 1967. p. 14.
- ^ Bierbrier, M. L. (1989). The Tomb-builders of the Pharaohs. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-977-424-210-6.
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