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Name: HEDENSTROEM, Emil Erik (Rev.)
Birth Date: 13.3.1844 Abo, Finland
Death Date: 1904 Lamu
Nationality: Finnish
First Date: 1886
Profession: Opened a mission at Kulesa and Lamu with Palmquist, a Swedish American. He had previously worked with the Swedish Mission in the Sudan
Area: Kulesa, Lamu
Book Reference: Weller, North, Ylvisaker
General Information:
North - Swedish American Alliance Mission - Mission at Kulesa on the Tana; Mission was abandoned during Witu disturbances of Sept. 1890; returned with wife to Lamu Sept. 1893 mission reopened; Kulesa Aug. 1896, 1898; Lamu area May 1900
North - Dep. Kulesa for Masa with J.J. Anderssen to investigate the actions of G. Denhardt in the Koro-Koro area 17-7-1896; Kulesa 1896, 1898; Lamu area May 1900
Journal of Translation, Volume 16, Number 1 (2020) Rev. E. E. Hedenström (1844–1904), the pioneer of the SEM mission at Gäläb, who in 1880 set Dawit Amanu? el and the young Täwäldä Mäd??n Gäbrä Mäd??n (1860–1930), his students at the time, the task of translating the New Testament into T?gre. Dawit, described by Musa ?Aron (1988:9) as the father of the T?gre language, began work by translating the Gospel of Mark, with the assistance of Täwäldä Mäd??n Gäbrä Mäd??n18 who would later be the first native evangelical worker to be ordained on the African continent.