Gustaf Rikard Raquette ''(also spelled Gustav)'' (7 Feb. 1871-1945) was a missionary with the

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(in Swedish 'Svenska Missions Förbundet') to

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Raquette was born on 7 February 1871 in Tolfta Parish,

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. He served as a medical missionary in

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and

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from 1895–96,

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from 1896–1901, Yarkand from 1904–11 and once more in Kashgar from 1913–21, then he returned to

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via

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and

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. Raquette married Evelina Elisabet Björkgren on 16 May 1896. After he returned to Sweden, and took up a lectureship at the

University of Lund , motto = Ad utrumque , mottoeng = Prepared for both , established = , type = Public research university , budget = SEK 9 billion Gunnar Jarring Gunnar Valfrid Jarring (12 October 1907 – 29 May 2002) was a Swedish diplomat and Turkologist. Early life Jarring was born in Brunnby, Malmöhus County, Sweden, the son of Gottfrid Jönsson, a farmer, and his wife Betty (née Svensson). He had ...

is one of his most well known pupils from his time teaching at the University.

Sources

Nordisk familjebok article on Raquette

Bibliography

*Raquette, Gustaf, ''A contribution to the existing knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan dialect as it is spoken and written at the present time in the districts of Yarkand and Kashgar'', Helsingfors 1909. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II'', Stockholm, 1912–1914. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II'', Stockholm, 1912–1914. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part III'', Stockholm, 1912–1914. *Raquette, G., ''The accent problem in Turkish'', Lund, 1927. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''English-Turki dictionary based on the dialects of Kaschgar and Yarkand'', Lund 1927. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''Täji bilä Zohra: Eine osttürkische Variante der Sage von Tahir und Zohra'', Lund 1930. *Raquette, G., "Collection of Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan. An Account of the Contents", särtryck ur C. G. Mannerheim, ''Across Asia from West to East 1906-08'', Helsingfors 1940. *Raquette, Gustaf, ''Kaschgarische wakf-urkunde aus der Khodscha-zeit Ost-Turkestans'', 1930. *Raquette, G., ''Simplified Christian Doctrines for Muslims'', Kashgar. *Raquette, G., ''Gustaf Raquette and Qasim Akhun's letters to Kamil efendi: ethnological and folkloristic materials from southern Sinkiang''. Swedish Protestant missionaries Protestant missionaries in China Christian medical missionaries Christian writers Christian missionaries in Central Asia 1871 births 1945 deaths Linguists from Sweden Protestant missionaries in Tibet Swedish expatriates in China Protestant missionaries in Bulgaria Missionary linguists {{Christianity-bio-stub