About Lars Erik Högberg
Lived 1858 – 1924 (aged 65–66). Lars Erik Högberg was a Swedish translator and bible translator.
Lars Erik Högberg (18 December 1858 – 1924) was a missionary and linguist in Russia, Persia and Chinese Turkestan (present-day Xinjiang). He served with the Mission Union of Sweden.
He first served in Russia in August 1880 and went to Chinese Turkestan first on 3 May 1894. In 1897 he visited the archaeological site of Yotkan, the ancient capital of the Kingdom of Khotan. There is a collection at the Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm, from this visit.
His first wife, Eva Eriksson, whom he married on 15 August 1882, died on 3 August 1892 of cholera in Tabriz, Iran. On 26 March 1894, he married a second time, to Sigrid Johanna Adelaide Braune.
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Who was Lars Erik Högberg?
Swedish missionary (1858–1924)
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Lars Erik Högberg was born on 18 December 1858 in Örebro County.
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Lars Erik Högberg died in 1924.
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Lars Erik Högberg was a translator and bible translator.
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Lars Erik Högberg was Swedish.
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