Sven Lidman (clergyman)

This article is about the Swedish Lutheran priest Sven Lidman. For the Swedish novelist and Pentecostal leader Sven Lidman, see Sven Lidman (writer). For Sven Lidman (born 1921), the lexicographer and the son of the writer, see Sven Lidman (lexicographer).
Sven Fredrik Lidman
Born11 December 1786 (1786-12-11)
Norrköping, Sweden
Died9 March 1845 (1845-03-10) (aged 58)
Linköping, Sweden
Alma materUppsala 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.

  1. ^ Opuscula Atheniensia. C.W.K. Gleerup. 1967. p. 14.
  2. ^ Bierbrier, M. L. (1989). The Tomb-builders of the Pharaohs. American Univ in Cairo Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-977-424-210-6.