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Life and ministry
August Andersson was born in 1868.
He served as a pastor in Agordat, Kulluku (1898‒1901), Kulluku (1902‒06), and Awsa Konoma (1908‒15).
After his first wife had passed away, he got married to Octavia Anderson (née Lindström) in 1907.
Rev Andersson worked in the Kunama area. He published
- Kunama hymn book, 1st ed., 1904 [30 songs]
- Kunama hymn book, 2nd ed., 1913 [270 songs]
Rev. August Andersson passed away in 1952.
Songs in hymn books
Anana Kitaba (Kunama Songbook), 1904; 2nd. ed. 1913:
- translated and published by Rev. Andersson
Picture
(adapted from a photograph at the SEM Archives)
Further reading
(1) Published sources
1.1 Swedish
Andersson, August. Ett och annat om Kunamaerna [A few things about the Kunama people]. (Missionsskrifter 26.) Stockholm: EFS, 1903. [SEM Archives]
⸻. Eko från Kunama [Echo from Kunama]. (Missionskrifter 32.) Stockholm: EFS, 1908. [SEM Archives]
⸻. Från gravarnas och blodssåddens land: En liten minnesskrift om Kunamamissionen under 75 år [From the land of graves and bloodshed: A small memorial publication about the Kunama Mission over 75 years]. Stockholm: EFS, 1941. [SEM Archives]
⸻. På gamla återställda stigar. Del II [On restored paths. Part II]. Stockholm: EFS, 1948.
1.2 Kunama
Anderson, August. Sillabario e leturario. Asmara: Swedish Mission Press, 1903. [SEM Archives]
⸻. Anana Kitaba [Hymn book]. 1st ed. Asmara: Swedish Mission Press, 1904.
⸻. Guida sulla stada di Dio: In lingua cunama. Asmara [Swedish Mission Press], 1912.
- Copy available in Stockholm, Royal Library.
⸻. Anana Kitaba [Hymn book]. 2nd ed. Asmara: Swedish Mission Press, 1913.
Anderson, Augustus, tr. Marko Ewangela ossia Evangelo di San Marco: Tradotto in Lingua Cunama. [Marko Ewangela or Gospel of St. Mark; translated into Kunama (by August Andersson)]. Asmara: Swedish Mission Press, 1906.
(2) Manuscripts
[Andersson, August]. Handskriven Krönikebok för Ausa-Conoma 1903‒1935 [Handwritten diary for (the mission stations) Ausa and Conoma, 1903‒1935]. [SEM Archives]
(3) Literature
Lundström, Karl Johan (edited by Ezra Gebremedhin). Kenisha: The Roots and Development of The Evangelical Church of Eritrea (EC) 1866-1935. Trenton, NJ; etc.: The Red Sea Press, 2011. [See index, p. 505]
Nilsson, Marianne. Chapter 2 in the forthcoming book on Ethiopian Gospel Music.