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Lars Rhodin

Best known for a Swedish proverb collection printed in 1807, this little-documented writer helped preserve traditional sayings in book form. Even with few biographical details surviving online, the work itself suggests a strong interest in language, memory, and everyday wisdom.

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Samling af Swenska Ordspråk i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur Latinen och andre Språk, liklydande eller motswarande

Samling af Swenska Ordspråk i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur Latinen och andre Språk, liklydande eller motswarande

by Lars Rhodin

About the author

Lars Rhodin is an obscure Swedish author remembered chiefly for Samling af swenska ordspråk, i ordning ställde efter alfabetet, med tillägg af någre utur latinen och andre språk, liklydande eller motswarande, a collection of Swedish proverbs published in Stockholm in 1807. Library records and later editions confirm his authorship and show that the book was organized alphabetically, making it both a literary curiosity and a practical reference work.

Reliable biographical information about his life is scarce in the sources available online, so it is safest to describe him through the work he left behind. That book points to a compiler deeply interested in folklore, language, and the way proverbs carry shared experience across generations.

For modern listeners and readers, Rhodin’s appeal lies in that spirit of preservation. His surviving work offers a glimpse into older Swedish speech and into the timeless human habit of turning everyday life into memorable sayings.