Erik August Skogsbergh

Erik August Skogsbergh (30 June 1850 – 31 October 1939) was a Swedish American Mission Friends revival preacher and lyricist. His works are represented in the Swedish Salvation Army's hymnal (FA). For a time, he published Minneapolis Veckoblad. He has been described as the "Swedish Moody".

Biography Erik August Skogsbergh was born in Älgå parish, Värmland, Sweden, the son of Per Skogsbergh, a mill worker and later a manufacturer, and Anna Eriksdotter. At one of Skogsbergh's revivals, musician had a conversion experience. The two would go on to work together, with Skogsbergh known as the "Swedish Moody" and Skoog the "Swedish Sankey". In 1881, they published the song collection (part 1).

Skogsbergh attempted to unite the different factions of the Mission movement, the Ansgar Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Synod. In 1884 he moved to Minneapolis, where he founded a school the same year to teach new Swedish emigrants English and business skills as well as biblical knowledge. It was taken over in 1891 by the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America; Skogsbergh, together with David Nyvall, was its director until 1894. Skogsbergh would then go on to start the Minnehaha Academy Association in 1904. He also founded newspapers such as Den Kristna Härolden (1884), which later became Minneapolis Veckoblad, a Mission Friends publication. A new church, the Swedish Mission Tabernacle, was built on his initiative in 1887 after he raised the money in three weeks traveling on horseback in the winter. He died in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, in 1939.

Songs/hymns

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