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Swedish missionary (1858–1924)

Högberg, Lars Erik
Missionary to East Turkestan
Born	18 December 1858 Nora Mountain Parish, Örebro County, Sweden
Died	1924
Spouse(s)	Eva Eriksson, Sigrid Johanna Adelaide Braune

Lars Erik Högberg (18 December 1858 – 1924) was a missionary and linguist in Russia and Chinese Turkestan (present day Xinjiang). He served with the Mission Union of Sweden.

He first served in Russia in August 1880, and went to Chinese Turkestan first on May 3, 1894. In 1897 he visited the archaeological site of Yotkan, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Khotan. There is a collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm from this visit.

His first wife, Eva Eriksson, whom he married August 15, 1882, died August 3, 1892, of cholera in Tabris, Persia. On 26 March 1894 he married a second time to Sigrid Johanna Adelaide Braune.

Bibliography

Högberg, L. E., Ett och annat från Kinesiska Turkestan, Stockholm: Svenska missionsförbundet, 1907
Högberg, L. E., Jolbas. En kaschgargosses levnad skildrad av honom själv, Stockholm 1913, 2. ed. 1918.
Högberg, L. E., The Way of Life in turkish, Kashgar S M S Mission Press 1914
Högberg, L. E., Läkaremissionen i Kaschgar 1905, in Hälsovännen N:o 13, 1 Juli 1917 - Läkaremission: I.
Högberg, L. E., Ruts besök i Ost-Turkestan, Stockholm 1919.
Högberg, L. E., När man börjar. Några erfarenheter vid uppförande av en ny missionsstation i Ost-Turkestan, Stockholm 1919
Högberg, L. E., Bland Persiens Muhammedaner: minnen och hågkomster från Svenska missionsförbundets arbete i Persien, Stockholm : Svenska missionsförbundet, 1920.
Högberg, L. E., Kultur-och missionsarbete: Ost-Turkestan, Göteborg: Wald. Zachrissons Boktryckeri A.-B., 1925.
Högberg, L. E., Islam och evangeliet; muhammedanmissionens vänner..., Stockholm, Svenska missionsförbundets förlag

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Background	Protestantism in China Protestantism in Sichuan Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
People	David Howard Adeney Mary Ann Aldersey Roland Allen Thomas J. Arnold Gladys Aylward Joseph Beech John Birch William Jones Boone Pearl S. Buck John Burdon Thomas Cochrane Hunter Corbett Jonathan Goforth Frederick Graves Karl Gützlaff Francis Hanson Laura Askew Haygood Elizabeth G. K. Hewat Jennie V. Hughes Robert A. Jaffray Carl C. Jeremiassen Griffith John Walter Judd James Legge Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Robert Morrison George Moule Gideon Nye David Paton Karl Ludvig Reichelt Timothy Richard Issachar Jacox Roberts Charles Scott Cambridge Seven George Smith Vincent John Stanton John and Betty Stam John Leighton Stuart Elwood Gardner Tewksbury Hudson Taylor Thomas Torrance William C. White (more missionaries)
Missionary agencies	American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions American Methodist Episcopal Mission Canadian Methodist Mission China Inland Mission Church Mission Society London Missionary Society National Christian Council US Presbyterian Mission Protestant Episcopal Church Mission List of Protestant missionary societies in China (1807–1953)
Colleges and universities	United Board University of Shanghai Cheeloo University Ginling College University of Nanking Soochow University Yenching University St. John's University Hangchow University Fukien Christian University Lingnan University College of Yale-in-China Huachung University West China Union University Peking Union Medical College Methodist Episcopal Church Hwa Nan College English Presbyterian Mission Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association Reformed Church in the United States
Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium
Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis 1911 Revolution Chinese Civil War Second Sino-Japanese War People's Republic
Publications	The Chinese Repository Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal The Christian Occupation of China Journal of the West China Border Research Society The West China Missionary News

References

"1901.23 :: Högberg, Lars Erik". collections.smvk.se. Retrieved 2024-12-06.
Montell, Gösta (1936). Sven Hedin's Archaeological Collections from Khotan: Terra-cottas from Yotkan and Dandan-Uiliq. In: The Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities. pp. 145–221.

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