Jean Fredman

In the year 1745 he married a wealthy widow named Katarina Lindberg.

[1] In 1752, things started to go worse for Fredman as his wife died.

This signalled the start of numerous events that would leave him poor and on the streets before his death on 6 May 1767.

[2] Bellman let Fredman be the supposed narrator of his songs and poems.

Originally it was thought that Fredman would play a part similar to the one of the apostle Paul in the Bible, writing epistles to his "congregation".