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Life and ministry
Olof (aka Olle) Hagner was born in 1895.
He got married to Greta Hagner, née Sjölin.
Olle Hagner served as a teacher and later as a pastor in
- Awsa Konoma [aka Sossona, near Barentu] (1922-31)
- Asmara (1933)
- Adwa (1934‒35)
- Keren (1935‒36)
- Asmara (1938‒46, 1948‒50)
- Keren (1953‒57; 1959)
- Aswa Konoma (1960)
- Keren (1961)
- Awsa Konoma (1962‒70)
Rev. Olle Hagner translated revised the Kunama hymnal published by Rev. Andersson. Translating European hymns into Kunama is a challenge because Kunama is a tonal language.
Rev. Hagner passed away in 1978.
Songs in hymn books
Kunama aurabu kolattama kida kitaba, 1952:
- Rev. Olle Hagner edited the hymn book
Anana Kitaba [precise title?], 1961
- Rev. Olle Hagner revised the former edition (1952)
Picture
(adapted from a photograph at the SEM historical archives)
(adapted from a photograph at the SEM historical archives)
Further reading
1. Selected sources
1.1 Swedish
Hagner, Olle. “Till Galla eller dö“, in Bortom Bergen [Beyond the mountains], vol. 1, edited by F. Hylander, p. 75. Stockholm: EFS, 1953.
1.2 Kunama
Hagner, Olle (ed.) Kunama aurabu kolattama kida kitaba. Asmara: Swedish Evangelical Mission, 1952. [110 p.; available at Uppsala Univ.]
⸻. Kunama aurabu kolattama anana kitaba. Asmara: Evangelical Church of Eritrea, 1961. [233 hymns] [View online]
Kunama Aurabu Kolattama: Marko Evanyela. [Mark’s Gospel; tr. by Andersson, rev. by Olle S. Hagner, Daniel Luli and Abel Fagghi]. [Addis Ababa:] Bible Society of Ethiopia, 1970.
2. 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. 509]
Nilsson, Marianne. Chapter 2 in forthcoming book on Ethiopian Gospel Music.