Stina Mårtensson Explained

Stina Mårtensson
Birth Date:3 June 1882
Birth Place:Ovanåker, Hälsingland
Death Date:1962
Death Place:Sweden

Stina Mårtensson (3 June 1882 – 1962) was a Swedish missionary. She served with the Swedish Missionary Society in Chinese Turkestan (present day Xinjiang) and India.

Mårtensson was born in Ovanåker in Hälsingland, Sweden. She worked as a nurse midwife in Yarkand[1] and Kashgar for more than 22 years in various periods during the years 1907–1936. In the 1930s she worked with other missionaries to offer vocational training in farmwork.[2]

From 1939 until 1946 she worked in India. She died in Sweden 1962 at the age of 80.

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.jarringlibrary.lingfil.uu.se/Library/Kashgar/Prints/1926-6.pdf The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library website, The Svenska Missionsförbundet Mission in Eastern Turkestan
  2. https://equmeniakyrkan.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/mission-and-revolution-part-2-hultvall-eng.pdf Equmeniakyrkan Church website, Mission and Revolution; Chapter V, “Fields Whitening to Harvest.” 1924 - 1932., page 11