Nils Fredrik Höijer (1857 – 20 November 1925) was a Swedish missionary to

Central Asia Central Asia is a region of Asia consisting of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The countries as a group are also colloquially referred to as the "-stans" as all have names ending with the Persian language, Pers ...

. In 1892 he accompanied

Johannes Avetaranian Johannes Avetaranian, born Mehmet Şükri (Erzurum, Ottoman Empire, 30 June 1861 – Wiesbaden, Germany, 11 December 1919) was originally a mullah in Turkey who converted from Islam to Christianity, and later became a missionary for the Swedish ...

Kashgar Kashgar () or Kashi ( zh, c=喀什) is a city in the Tarim Basin region of southern Xinjiang, China. It is one of the westernmost cities of China, located near the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. For over 2,000 years, Kashgar ...

. He did not however, stay in

. In 1903, he founded Swedish Slavic Mission (today known as Ljus i Öster ''Light for the Peoples''), a missionary organization that today has missionaries in works in the CIS,

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, Turkey,

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, and China.

Bibliography

*''Avateranian, Johannes & Bechard, John (tr); A Muslim Who Became A Christian'' (Hertford: Authors Online Ltd.) *''Ann-Charlotte Fritzon, Passion för det omöjliga Om pionjären Nils Fredrik Höijer Slaviska Missionen – Bromma Malmö 1993'' *''Ann-Charlotte Fritzon, Passion for the Impossible''

External links

Ljus i ÖsterDagen.se bio of Nils Fredrik Höijer
Swedish Protestant missionaries Protestant missionaries in China Christian missionaries in Central Asia 1857 births 1925 deaths Swedish expatriates in China People from Säffle Municipality {{Christianity-bio-stub