Carl Joseph Fast (; (also written as 法士) Foochow Romanized: Huák-sê̤ṳ; October 8, 1822 – November 13, 1850) was the second Swedish missionary sent to China[1] and the first Protestant missionary murdered in Fuzhou.[2]
On January 1, 1850, Fast arrived in Foochow (today Fuzhou) as the missionary from the Lutheran Lund Missionary Society of Sweden,[3] and was joined by later that year. The mission they set up in China was short-lived. On November 13, 1850, the two missionaries were brutally assaulted by Chinese pirates when they were coming up the River Min after getting money from a ship. Armed with a pistol Elgqvist survived the attack, but Fast was killed on the spot.[4]
Fast was buried in Fuzhou Nantai.[2] An order was given by then-Fujian Governor Xu Jiyu (Chinese: 徐继畬) to capture the murderers within three days, and the case was finally settled on November 18, with three criminals brought to justice.[5]