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ONLY PARTS OF AVAILABLE INFORMATION IS AT THE MOMENT PRESENTED.

INFORMATION AND LAYOUT WILL CHANGE.

More information is available and will be published according to the following plan:

Norway within March 2006,

Iceland within June 2006.

At the moment (December 2005) little or no information is available about Danish, Finnish, and Swedish Unitarian pastors abroad.

Norwegian Unitarian pastors abroad:

Garborg, Samuel

Unitarian pastor in the USA. Born ? Died ? For some time part of Kristofer Janson’s household in Minneapolis. 18??: Directed the Minneapolis Unitarian church choir. Summer 1844 he opened a Scandinavian-English evening school, Minneapolis. Further information not known. Source: Draxten: Kristofer Janson in America (1976:117).

Haugerud, Herman

Unitarian pastor in the USA and Norway. Born October 7 1864 in Kristiania (= Oslo, Norway). Died 1937 (Oslo?). Emigrated from Kristiania to Chicago July 22 1886. 1886?-1890? he studied at Meadville Theological School together with Johannes J. Bruti, and for one year at Harvard Divinity School August 1892 to May? 1893. Ordained as Unitarian minister December 3 1890. Before returning to Norway to become Unitarian pastor of The Church of Brotherhood in Kristiania (1903-1937) he served as minister from October 1890 to August 1892 at Puyallup (Washington), from June 1 1893 to October 1 1895 at Rowe (Massachusetts), from October 13 1895 to May 28 1899 at Minneapolis (Minnesota), from July 1899 to 1902 at Hudson (Wisconsin), and from Januray 1 1902 to July 1 1903 at Walpole (Massachussets). Source: General Catalogue of Harvard Divinity School (1920).

Janson, Kristofer Nagel (1841-1917) greatly inspired by Viktor Rydberg’s book Bibelns lära om Kristus (1862, The Bible’s teaching on Christ) broke with the Norwegian State Church.

Jansons’s Unitarian church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Nazareth church.

Photo from Draxten: Kristofer Janson in America, 1976.

Jansons’s church and house in Hanska, Minnesota, the Nora Free Church.

Photo from Draxten: Kristofer Janson in America, 1976.

Bruti, Johannes Jonnson

Unitarian pastor in the USA. Born 29 January 1857 in Bruti in Norway. Died in Oregon (USA) 9 April 1907. Married Andrea Jensine Ellingsen from Trøndelag in Norway. They lived in the Midwest and later in Oregon. Emigrated to America 1886. Studied at Meadville Theological School (1886) together with the Norwegian Herman Haugerud. Spring 1892 he served as Unitarian resident minister at Underwood, Fergus Falls, Battle Lake, and Tordenskiold, all in Minnesota. Further information not know. Source: Draxten: Kristofer Janson in America (1976: 164, 294) and The Bruti Genealogy Page.

Norman, Amadeus (More information soon to come)

Rikstad, H. S. (More information soon to come)

Tambs Lyche, Hans

Unitarian pastor in the USA. Born 1859 in Halden (Norway). Died 1898 in Kristiania (= Oslo, Norway). (More information to follow soon.)

Sweden

Draxten: Swedish Unitarian society i Minnesota, se s. 242. Axel Lundeberg

First update December 23 2005 – 22 Kislev 5766

Last update February 11 2006 – 13 Shevat 5766

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