Lidströmer is a Swedish noble family, originating from the village of

Liden Liden is a locality situated in Sundsvall Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden with 254 inhabitants in 2010. It is located near the river Indalsälven Indalsälven is one of Sweden's longest rivers with a total length of 430 kilometers ...

Medelpad Medelpad ( or ) is a historical province or ''landskap'' in the north of Sweden. It borders Hälsingland, Härjedalen, Jämtland, Ångermanland and the Gulf of Bothnia. The province is a part of Norrland and as such considered to be Norther ...

, Sweden. Knighted 3 October 1800 by King

Gustav IV Adolf Gustav IV Adolf or Gustav IV Adolph (1 November 1778 – 7 February 1837) was King of Sweden from 1792 until he was deposed in a coup in 1809. He was also the last Swedish monarch to be the ruler of Finland. The occupation of Finland in 1808– ...

Stockholm Palace Stockholm Palace or the Royal Palace ( sv, Stockholms slott or ) is the official residence and major royal palace of the Swedish monarch (King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia use Drottningholm Palace as their usual residence). Stockholm Pala ...

, Sweden.

Jonas Lidströmer Jonas Lidströmer (1755–1808) was a Swedish inventor and officer in the Swedish Navy. Lidströmer was born in 1755 at Lagfors bruk, Medelpad, and died 1808 in Stockholm. He was a ''colonel-mecanicus'', head of the mechanical state of the Royal ...

(1755–1808) was nobilised on the grounds of his great innovations during late 18th centuryFredrik Blom, ''Åminnelse-Tal öfver Kongl. Akademiens framl. Ledamot, öfvertse Löjtanten, Välborne Herr Jonas Lidströmer'', Krigsvetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 1808-1809, pp. 37-58, Stockholm, 1811

Notable members

(1755–1808), inventor * Anna Fredrika Lidströmer (1780-1861), spouse of Admiral

Otto Gustaf Nordenskiöld Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity". The name is recorded fr ...

Fredrik August Lidströmer Fredrik August Lidströmer (1787–1856) was the son of Jonas Lidströmer. He was a Swedish architect, artist and marine officer, as well as Stockholm's city architect. Raised in the naval city of Karlskrona, he came to Stockholm to help his fat ...

(1787–1856), architect * Fredrik Lidströmer (1820-1862), officer at the

Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy The Swedish colony of Saint Barthélemy existed for nearly a century. In 1784, one of French king Louis XVI's ministers ceded Saint Barthélemy to Sweden in exchange for trading rights in the Swedish port of Gothenburg. Swedish rule lasted un ...

* August Lidströmer (1839–1915), businessman * Gustaf Lidströmer (1871–1944), county councillor * Sigrid Lidströmer (1866–1942), author * Louise Lidströmer (b. 1948), artist

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lidstromer Swedish noble families