Gustaf Albert Ahlbert (26 January 1884 – 1943) was a Swedish missionary and

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. He served with the

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(present day Xinjiang). Ahlbert had a competent knowledge of

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and Uyghur. He was one of the last three missionaries to be expelled from

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in 1939. After he was expelled, he worked among Muslims in India, and worked together with

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and

Dr. Nur Luke Dr. Nur Luke was a Uyghur Bible translator from Hotan who converted to Christianity. He fled Xinjiang in the 1930s and together with Gustaf Ahlbert and Oskar Hermannson finished the translation of the Uyghur Bible in India. This was published by t ...

on the Uyghur Bible translation, until his death in Bombay in 1943.

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Bibliography

*''Gustaf Ahlbert, Bachta Chan eller Lyckobarnet, Stockholm, 1934'' *''Gustaf Ahlbert, Habil: En Kristen Martyr i Östturkestan, Stockholm,. (1934)'' *''Gustaf Ahlbert, Letter specimens. The manner of writing letters and documents in the six cities, Kashghar: Svenska Missionstryckeriet (1920)'' *''Gustaf Ahlbert, Spelling-book for the language of the Six Cities, Kashghar: Swedish Mission Press, (1929)'' *''Gustaf Ahlbert, östtur-kestansk flickas historia'' *''John Hultvall, Mission och revolution i Centralasien: Svenska Missionsförbundets mission i Östturkestan 1892 - 1938, Stockholm: Gummesson 1981.'' *Rachel O. Wingate, The Steep Ascent: The Story of the Christian Church in Turkestan, British and Foreign Bible Society (1948?)