Josef Mässrur (born Ghäsim Khan) (also sometimes spelled Josef Messrur) was a Christian Persian missionary to Chinese Turkestan with the Mission Union of Sweden.
Josef was born in Tehran, Persia, of Persian parents. He studied medicine and French from a French doctor in Tehran. Afterwards he set up an independent practice.
While he was practising as a doctor a Swedish missionary gave him a New Testament, and Josef made the decision to give his life to Jesus. He was baptised and took the name Josef.
In 1894 he joined the Mission Union of Sweden, and went to Xinjiang.
On 5 May 1895, after arriving in Kashgar, he married Anna Nyström, whom he had met in Persia. They then worked in Yarkand.
In 1890 they travelled home to Sweden and Persia. They never returned to Chinese Turkestan, but worked in Rasht, and Tehran till his death.
He died on March 31, 1913.
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Protestant missions to China
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| Background |
- Christianity
- Protestantism
- Chinese history
- Missions timeline
- Christianity in China
- Nestorians
- Jesuits
- Protestant missions in China 1807–1953
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| People |
- Robert Morrison
- Hunter Corbett
- Gladys Aylward
- Pearl Buck
- Thomas Cochrane, 1866-1953
- Jonathan Goforth
- Karl Gützlaff
- Eric Liddell
- Robert S. Maclay
- Lottie Moon
- Gideon Nye
- Timothy Richard
- Cambridge Seven
- Hudson Taylor
- (more missionaries)
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| Missionary agencies |
- CIM
- LMS
- ABCFM
- CMS
- M.E.M
- US Presbyterian Mission
- (more agencies)
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| Impact |
- Chinese Bible
- Medical missions in China
- Manchurian revival
- Chinese Colleges
- Chinese Hymnody
- Chinese Roman Type
- Minnan Roman Type
- Foochow Roman Type
- Anti-Footbinding
- Anti-Opium
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| 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
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| Chinese protestants |
- Feng Yuxiang
- Liang Fa
- Keuh Agong
- Samuel Lamb
- Wang Mingdao
- Watchman Nee
- Xi Shengmo
- Sun Yat-sen
- John Sung
- Allen Yuan
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