Olav Espegren

Olav Espegren (1879 – 1948) was a Norwegian missionary affiliated with the Norwegian Lutheran Mission. After attending the mission school in Norway, he was sent as a missionary to China in 1902.

In 1904 he established the mission station in Nanyang in southwestern Henan, as part of the Norwegian Lutheran China Mission's mission field, with was centered at Laohekou, which was situated south to the border of the neighboring province of Hubei. He was the overseer of his locality's mission field during the national turmoil that created the lawless and factioning states in 1927.

In his final years in China, he was weakened by disease. Due to the oubreak of the Chinese civil war in Kunming, heand other missionaries had to flee over the Himalayas to India and they returned to Norway for the last time in 1946.

References

Harald Stene Dehlin: Østens hvite sønn 1968
Tess Johnston: God & country: western religious architecture in old China,
R. G. Tiedemann: Reference guide to Christian missionary societies in China, 2009 (p. 191)
Bjørn Steenstrup: Hvem er hvem?, 1979.

Norwegian missionaries in China

Norwegian Mission Societies	Norwegian Lutheran Mission Norwegian Missionary Society The Pentecostal Foreign Mission of Norway Norwegian Mission Alliance Christian Muslim Mission

Norwegian Missionaries	Thorstein Himle Anna Sofie Jakobsen Bernt Berntsen Marie Monsen Olav Espegren Parley Gulbrandsen Edin Cornelius Alfsen Otto Torvik Sverre Holth Asbjørn Aavik Helga Jensine Waabenø Arnulf Solvoll

Protestant missions to China

Background	Christianity Protestantism Chinese history Missions timeline Christianity in China Nestorians Jesuits Protestant missions in China 1807–1953

People	Carl C. Jeremiassen Robert Morrison Hunter Corbett Gladys Aylward Pearl S. Buck Thomas Cochrane Jonathan Goforth Karl Gützlaff Eric Liddell Robert Samuel Maclay Lottie Moon Gideon Nye Timothy Richard Cambridge Seven Hudson Taylor (more missionaries)

Missionary agencies	OMF International/China Inland Mission LMS ABCFM CMS M.E.M US Presbyterian Mission (more agencies)

Impact	Bible translations into Chinese Medical missions in China Manchurian revival Chinese Christian colleges Chinese hymnody Chinese Roman Type Minnan Roman Type Foochow Roman Type Anti-footbinding Anti-opium

Pivotal events	Taiping Rebellion First Opium War Second Opium War Unequal treaty Yangzhou riot Tianjin Massacre Kucheng Massacre Boxer Crisis Xinhai Revolution Chinese Civil War WWII People's Republic

Chinese Protestants	Feng Yuxiang Liang Fa Keuh Agong Samuel Lamb Wang Ming-Dao Watchman Nee Xi Shengmo Sun Yat-sen John Sung Allen Yuan

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