Carl Hindrik Sven Rudolphsson Lidman (June 30, 1882 – February 14, 1960)—military officer, poet, writer, and preacher, grandson of the priest Sven Lidman—was born in Karlskrona, became a sublieutenant in the Swedish royal army reserve in 1903, and studied law at

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. He then began a promising career as a celebrated poet with ''Pasiphaë'' (1904), ''Primavera'' (1905), ''Källorna'' (1906), and ''Elden och altaret'' (1907). He also wrote the dramas ''Imperia'' (1907) and ''Härskare'' (1908), before starting to write novels: ''Stensborg'' (1910), ''Thure Gabriel Silfverstååhl'' (1910), ''Carl Silfverstååhls upplevelser'' (2nd edition, 1912), ''Köpmän och krigare'' (3rd edition, 1911), ''Tvedräktens barn'' (1913), and ''Det levande fäderneshuset'' (1916). In 1917 he went through a religious revival, which came out in his novels ''Huset med de gamla fröknarna'' (5th edition, 1919), ''Såsom genom eld'' (5th edition, 1920), ''Bryggan håller'' (1923), and ''Personlig frälsning'' (1924). In 1921 he joined the fast-growing Swedish

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, became the editor of its magazine ''Evangelii Härold'', and was considered the movement's second-leading person next to founder

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. Lidman's autobiography was published in four parts: ''Gossen i grottan'' (1952), ''Lågan och lindansaren'' (1952), ''Mandoms möda'' (1954), and ''Vällust och vedergällning'' (1957). A biography was written by

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, ''Sven Lidman: ett livsdrama'' (1996, ). Biographic and historic details also appear in

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's 2001 novel ''Lewis Resa'' ('Levi's journey'),Stockholm: Norstedts, ; English translation by Tiina Nunnally as ''Lewi's Journey'' (New York: Overlook Press, 2005), . and in autobiographies by the younger Sven Lidman. Lidman is interred in the family grave with his grandfather.

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