Edin Cornelius Alfsen

Edin Cornelius Alfsen, (Chinese: 安理生, born 15 April 15, 1896 - August 1966) was a Lutheran missionary affiliated with the Norwegian Mission Alliance and he was also the founder with the Norwegian Tibet Mission.^[1] Born in Skogn to Christopher and Brita Alfsen, Edin was employed at Det norske diakonhjem and was later enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in the America. He journeyed to China in 1922 and became affiliated with the Norwegian Mission Alliance in Zhangjiakou (张家口), Zhili, Longmen (龙门) and Zhicheng for fourteen years. During 1925, Edin Cornelius Alfsen married Ethel Zoe Oakes in China. Edin established the Norwegian Tibet Mission during 1938 and formed a mission station at Dajianlu (打箭炉) for six years until 1944.

In 1945, Edin worked at the Mayo Clinic in the United States from 1945 for thirteen years. He undertook a trip to Taiwan via Singapore, and later that year, to Batu Gajak in Malaysia where he established an independent mission named the South East Asia Bible Fellowship.

Edin died in Minnesota's Dodge County in August 1966.

Literature

• Edin Cornelius Alfsen: My Call to Tibet, Horten, 1943
• Norwegian Mission Lexicon, Volume 1, sp. 43.

References, Notes and Further Reading

1. Norsk Misjonsleksikon, Vol. 1, col. 43