Melin Shorthand

Melin shorthand
Script type
light-line-line script Shorthand
CreatorOlof Werling Melin
Time period
1880-
LanguagesSwedish
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The Melin system of shorthand is the dominant shorthand system used in Sweden. It was created by Olof Melin (1849–1940), an officer in the Swedish Army.[1][2] He was a teacher of the Gabelsberger shorthand system in the Swedish army, but he was dissatisfied with it so he created an alternate system, that today is known as the Melin System.

  1. ^ Melin, Olof W. (1927). Stenografiens historia. D. 1. Stockholm: Nord. bokh. i distr.
  2. ^ The Business Education World. Gregg Publishing Company. 1946. p. 388.