Johanna Anderson

Johanna Anderson (October 2, 1856 — December 1, 1904) was a missionary in Burma, the first missionary sent abroad from the Swedish Baptist Church in America.

Johanna Anderson, from a 1905 publication.

Early life

Johanna P. Anderson was born in Värmland, Sweden, the daughter of Anders Andersson and Margaretta Christina Larsdotter Andersson. She moved to the United States as a child, with her parents, who settled in a Swedish-immigrant community in Moorhead, Minnesota.[1]

Career

Anderson became the first Swedish Baptist missionary[2][3][4] in 1888, when she sailed to work in Toungoo, teaching Bghai Karen children and overseeing local teachers at a school in Burma. She described her work, and Burmese people and customs, in writings for American publications.[5] She was sponsored by the Woman's Baptist Foreign Missionary Society of the West.[6] She was back in the United States on furlough for health reasons[7] from 1897 to 1900, giving lectures to support mission work.[8] She returned to Burma in 1903, stationed at Loikaw, where she died the following year.[9]

Personal life

Anderson died in Burma in 1904, aged 47 years.[9]

References
  1. A. M. Bacon, "A Beautiful Life" The Helping Hand (February 1905): 21.
  2. H. Leon McBeth, The Baptist Heritage (B&H Publishing 1987). ISBN 9781433671029
  3. Bill J. Leonard, Baptists in America (Columbia University Press 2012): 213. ISBN 9780231501712
  4. Robert E. Johnson, A Global Introduction to Baptist Churches (Cambridge University Press 2010): 173. ISBN 9780521877817
  5. Johanna Anderson, "A Karen Missionary Meeting" Baptist Missionary Magazine (November 1892): 462-465.
  6. "Missionaries of the American Baptist Missionary Union" Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1895): 5.
  7. "Foreign Department" The Helping Hand (July 1898): 11.
  8. "Autumnal Notes" The Helping Hand (January 1901): 14.
  9. Untitled news item, Baptist Missionary Magazine (January 1905): 45.
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