23 Facts About Peter Fjellstedt

Peter Fjellstedt was a Swedish Nyevangelist missionary and preacher who founded the Fjellstedt School and Evangeliska Fosterlands-Stiftelsen.

Peter Fjellstedt writes in his autobiography: "Often I went up on some big rock and preached, as best I could, to my cows, sheep and lambs".

Peter Fjellstedt then studied in Karlstad for three and a half years, renting living space from a tavernkeeper and having to sleep on the lid of a wooden chest with his coat for a blanket.

In 1823, Peter Fjellstedt began studies at Lund University in Christian ministry.

Peter Fjellstedt returned to Lund in 1825 to complete his studies, where he was taught by a follower of Pietistic priest Henric Schartau.

Peter Fjellstedt became convinced of his calling to go out as a missionary, a conviction that was consolidated during a time as a teacher at the Moravian school in Gothenburg.

The school's founder had a number of writings on missions work which Peter Fjellstedt had access to.

Peter Fjellstedt was ordained in May 1828 in Karlstad by Bishop Bjurback.

Peter Fjellstedt then undertook further missionary training with Basel Mission, after which he went to London in 1829.

Peter Fjellstedt met some Swedish church leaders, including Frans Michael Franzen and Johan Jacob Hedren.

In London, Peter Fjellstedt studied medicine and had planned to study Arabic, Amharic, and Tigrinya to go to Ethiopia, but he was unable to go there so instead he studied Persian and Coptic.

Peter Fjellstedt married Christina Beata Schweizerbarth in London in 1831.

Peter Fjellstedt went on a further assignment to Izmir, Turkey, in 1836, as well as Malta, but left the mission field again in 1840.

Peter Fjellstedt then returned to Basel, where he served as a teacher at the Mission Institute.

Peter Fjellstedt was awarded an honorary doctorate of theology by the University of Halle in Germany in 1853.

Peter Fjellstedt supported lay preacher Amelie von Braun's pioneering Sunday school work, which she began sometime between 1848 and 1856.

Peter Fjellstedt visited philanthropist Emilie Petersen, known as the 'Herrestad Grandmother'.

Peter Fjellstedt led a church meeting in which it was discussed whether or not to stay in the state church.

Peter Fjellstedt was the first president of the organization Lapska missionens vanner, founded in 1880, which supported missions work in Lappmarken and was supported by the Swedish royal family and the Church of Sweden.

Peter Fjellstedt was part of the Nyevangelism movement and a key figure among the Mission Friends.

Peter Fjellstedt was critical of the state of Christianity in the country.

Peter Fjellstedt placed an emphasis on Christian eschatology, holding a historic premillennial, non-dispensationalist view on the Second Coming of Jesus, which he preached on.

Peter Fjellstedt died in Uppsala in 1881 and is buried in Uppsala old cemetery.