Nils Fredrik Höijer Explained

Nils Fredrik Höijer
Birth Date:1857
Birth Place:Svanskog, Värmland, Sweden
Death Place:Seattle, Washington, United States

Nils Fredrik Höijer (1857  - 20 November 1925) was a Swedish missionary to Central Asia. In 1892 he accompanied Johannes Avetaranian to Kashgar. He did not however, stay in Kashgar.

In 1903, he founded Swedish Slavic Mission (today known as Ljus i Öster Light for the Peoples), a missionary organization that today has missionaries in works in the CIS, Eastern Europe, Turkey, Mongolia, and China.

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