Olof Werling Melin (3 August 1861 – 15 January 1940) was a Swedish colonel and the creator of Melin Shorthand, the dominant shorthand system in Sweden.
[1] Melin taught the Gabelsberger shorthand system in the Swedish Army.
Being dissatisfied with it, he created an alternative system subsequently called Melin Shorthand.
The most notable among them are Stenografiens historia, första delen and Stenografiens historia, andra delen (The history of shorthand – Part I and Part II), which can be regarded as his Magnum Opus.
In these two books Melin described the history of shorthand from the ancient Greece to modern times.