Hans Peter Børresen

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Hans Peter Børresen

Hans Peter Børresen (born November 29, 1825 in Christianshavn , Copenhagen , † September 23, 1901 in Benagaria , Jharkhand , India) was a Danish missionary in India . He and the Norwegian missionary Lars Olsen Skrefsrud were the founders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in northern India - Bihar, Assam and Bengal - which reached as far as Nepal and Bhutan .

Missionary work

Hans Peter Børresen was sent to India in 1864 with his wife Caroline Vilhelmine Ernestine Hempel from the Berlin Gossner Mission to evangelize the North Indian natives. He started at Purulia Station , now in West Bengal, to work with Lars Olsen Skrefsrud. In 1867 he and Skrefsrud left the Gossner Mission and together with Edward Colpys Johnson from the Baptist Missionary Community founded the Ebenezer mission station in Benagaria in the Santal Parganas. They started the new mission station to work and proselytize among the locals ( Santals , Bodos , Bengal and Bihari). Hans Peter Børresen became the fundraiser for the mission, while Skrefsrud gave the mission its dynamism. Skrefsrud learned the Santali language and published a Santali grammar in 1873 that was of a higher quality than the earlier 1852 work by Jeremiah Phillips.

In 1868 he and Skrefsrud settled in Assam, where they founded the Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church with members from Santals (in the majority), Bengal and Bodos, which focused on northern India. In 1877 Børresen returned to Copenhagen to seek support for the ministry and received ordination in the state church.

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personal data
SURNAME Børresen, Hans Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish missionary
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Christianshavn , Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH September 23, 1901
Place of death Benagaria , Jharkhand , India