Adolf Bohlin (born 9 March 1873) was a
Swedish missionary. He served with the
Mission Union of Sweden
The Mission Covenant Church of Sweden ( – until 2003 'Swedish Mission Covenant'), founded in 1878, was a Swedish evangelical free church in the Radical Pietist tradition. It was the second-largest Protestant denomination in Sweden, after the ...
in
Chinese Turkestan
Chinese Turkestan or Chinese Turkistan, is a geographical term or historical region corresponding to the region of the Tarim Basin in Southern Xinjiang (south of the Tian Shan mountain range) or Xinjiang as a whole which was under the rule of ...
(present day Xinjiang). Born Adolf Fredrik Persson in Tived, Skaraborg, Sweden, he was the ninth child of 12 for Per Erik Persson and Maja Cajsa Jacobsdotter. In late 1920 he moved to Los Angeles, California in the United States where he worked as a gardener until his retirement.
Bibliography
*J. Lundahl (editor), På obanade stigar: Tjugofem år i Ost-Turkestan. Stockholm, Svenska Missionsförbundet Förlag, 1917
External links
Mission and Change in Eastern Turkestan(English Translation of select chapters of ''Mission och revolution i Centralasien'')
Swedish Protestant missionaries
Protestant missionaries in China
Christian missionaries in Central Asia
1873 births
1964 deaths
Swedish expatriates in China
People from Laxå Municipality
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