21 Facts About Jakob Ekman

Erik Jakob Ekman, called and in the Riksdag was a Swedish priest, free church leader, and author.

Jakob Ekman was one of the founders of what became the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden and was a member of Parliament for a total of about seven years.

Jakob Ekman was the father of entrepreneur and member of Parliament Josef Ekman.

Jakob Ekman became a student at Uppsala University in 1862; during that time he found the Pietist revival movement through Carl Olof Rosenius' works and publication Pietisten.

Jakob Ekman was ordained in 1864 and graduated as a pastor in 1871.

In 1869, Jakob Ekman married Maria Lovisa Sjostrom, daughter of provost Carl Fredrik Sjostrom and Lovisa Catharina Norman.

Jakob Ekman served in the Church of Sweden, including as curate of Ockelbo parish from 1869.

Jakob Ekman spearheaded the founding of the in 1878 and became its first president.

From 1877 to 1880 Jakob Ekman published, a Christian monthly, together with free church leader Paul Petter Waldenstrom; and from 1880 to 1885 the periodical, together with priest Andreas Fernholm.

Jakob Ekman edited the periodical and the calendar.

In 1891, Jakob Ekman was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology by the Congregationalist-affiliated Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA.

Jakob Ekman first attempted to defend infant baptism as a family baptism, for example in his book, but later became an outspoken opponent of infant baptism.

Jakob Ekman wrote, among other things, that the baptism of unconscious children is "in obvious conflict with the essence and nature of New Testament baptism".

On eschatology, Jakob Ekman first held that those who have sinned against the Holy Spirit are eternally damned.

Jakob Ekman strongly denied that God directly dictated the words when the Bible was written, known as verbal inspiration.

Jakob Ekman called for the abolition of church confirmation and the introduction of compulsory civil marriage.

From 1885 to 1887 Jakob Ekman represented the municipalities of Kristinehamn, Askersund, Nora and Lindesberg in the Riksdag's Andra kammare, and the constituency of Stockholm from 1891 to 1893 and 1894 to 1896.

Jakob Ekman was a member of the Old Lantmanna Party, Lantmanna Party, and independent.

Jakob Ekman wrote 25 motions of his own, primarily on issues of religious freedom such as the introduction of compulsory civil marriage, the right to leave the state church and the abolition of the obligation to baptize children.

Jakob Ekman was one of the founders of the Swedish parliamentary peace group in 1892 and participated in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's peace conferences in Rome in 1891 and The Hague in 1894.

Jakob Ekman had his own publishing company, ; his books were largely self-published.