Johanna Anderson, from a 1905 publication.

Johanna Anderson (October 2, 1856 — December 1, 1904) was a missionary in Burma, the first missionary sent abroad from the Swedish Baptist Church in America.

Early life

Johanna P. Anderson was born in Värmland, Sweden, the daughter of Anders Andersson and Margaretta Christina Larsdotter Andersson. She moved to the United States as a child, with her parents, who settled in a Swedish-immigrant community in Moorhead, Minnesota.[1]

Career

Anderson became the first Swedish Baptist missionary[2][3][4] in 1888, when she sailed to work in Toungoo, teaching Bghai Karen children and overseeing local teachers at a school in Burma. She described her work, and Burmese people and customs, in writings for American publications.[5] She was sponsored by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West.[6] She was back in the United States on furlough for health reasons[7] from 1897 to 1900, giving lectures to support mission work.[8] She returned to Burma in 1903, stationed at Loikaw, where she died the following year.[9]

Personal life

Anderson died in Burma in 1904, aged 47 years.[9]

References

  1. ^ A. M. Bacon, "A Beautiful Life" The Helping Hand (February 1905): 21.
  2. ^ H. Leon McBeth, The Baptist Heritage (B&H Publishing 1987). ISBN 9781433671029
  3. ^ Bill J. Leonard, Baptists in America (Columbia University Press 2012): 213. ISBN 9780231501712
  4. ^ Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches (Cambridge University Press 2010): 173. ISBN 9780521877817
  5. ^ Johanna Anderson, "A Karen Missionary Meeting" Baptist Missionary Magazine (November 1892): 462-465.
  6. ^ "Missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union" Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1895): 5.
  7. ^ "Foreign Department" The Helping Hand (July 1898): 11.
  8. ^ "Autumnal Notes" The Helping Hand (January 1901): 14.
  9. ^ a b Untitled news item, Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1905): 45.
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