Hans Nicolajsen, known as John Nicolayson (1803 in

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– 1856 in

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) was a Danish missionary to Palestine for the

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. He was in effect the first representative of the British

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in Palestine.Yaron Perry ''British mission to the Jews in nineteenth-century Palestine'' 2003 p22 He was one of those who appealed against the Damascus affair, and was founder of

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, and

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as predecessor of

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