Olof Olsson (theologian)

Olof Olsson (31 March 1841 Björtorp, Vermland, Sweden - 1900) was a Swedish-American Lutheran clergyman.

Biography

Sweden

He was educated at the universities of Stockholm and Upsala, and was graduated at the latter in 1861, after spending a year (1859-60) in the Missionary Institute at Leipzig. He also studied in the theological department of the University of Upsala, where he was graduated in 1863. He was ordained on 15 December 1863 to the ministry of the Lutheran church, and at once assumed the duties of pastor, serving in that capacity in Sweden until 1868.

United States

About this time he came to the United States and settled in Lindsborg, Kansas, where he was pastor of Swedish Lutheran congregations in 1869-76. After 1876, he was professor of theology in the theological seminary of the Swedish Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. In 1891, Olsson left a congregation at Woodhull, Illinois, to return to Augustana College, in which he had been professor 1877-88, and of which he now became president.

Writings

He edited Nyat Och Gammtl, a newspaper, at Lindsborg, Kansas, in 1873, and Luther-Kalender, an annual (Rock Island, Illinois, 1883). He published in Swedish At the Cross (Rock Island, Illinois), which was reprinted in Sweden; Greetings from Afar, being Recollections of Travels in England and Germany (1880; also translated into Norwegian and published in Norway); and The Christian Hope, Words of Consolation in Suffering and Sorrow (Chicago, 1887).

References

•  "Olsson, Olof". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 
•  "Olsson, Olof". New International Encyclopedia. 1905. 

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Name	Olsson, Olof
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Date of birth	31 March 1841
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Date of death	1900
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