Bengt Lidner

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Bengt Lidner
Bengt Lidner
Born	(1757-03-16)16 March 1757 Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	4 January 1793(1793-01-04) (aged 35) Stockholm, Sweden
Occupation	poet
Nationality	Swedish

Bengt Lidner (March 16, 1757 – January 4, 1793) was a

His father died when he was 3, his mother when he was 14. In 1774, at age 17, he started studies at Lund University and produced two dissertations within two years, but was expelled just before presenting the second one. In 1776 he joined a ship of the Swedish East India Company from Gothenburg to China, but fled in Cape Town in April and in September he enlisted as a student of the University of Greifswald, which then was situated in Swedish Pomerania. There he wrote a dissertation on the justification of the American declaration of independence, but was told this subject was too sensitive, because of Sweden's diplomatic relation with Great Britain.

In 1779 he moved to

Lidner's collected works have appeared (in Swedish) in many editions, most recently in the text critical edition of Svenska Vitterhetssamfundet in four volumes, 1930-1992.

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