Fredrik Franson

Fredrik Franson ( born June 17, 1852 in Nora, Sweden, † August 2, 1908 in Idaho Springs, Colorado) was an evangelist and founder of several missionary societies, including the Alliance 's mission.

At age seventeen Franson in 1870 emigrated with his parents to America. In 1875 he taught in Chicago known evangelist Dwight L. Moody ( 1837-1899 ) know. From 1881 begins Frederik Fransons global travel, first in Scandinavia, then in Germany and other European countries and eventually beyond.

Fourteen missionary societies or free church confederations lead still back their beginnings to Frederik Franson: In Germany it is Carl Polnick (1856-1919), with whom he 1889 calls the alliance 's mission in life, now the foreign mission of the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches is. Next are: the Armenian Evangelical Brotherhood, the Federation of Free Evangelical Churches in America, the Danish Mission Covenant Church, the Evangelical Alliance Mission in America, the Finnish Free Church, the Free Finnish Missionary Federation, the Norwegian Alliance Mission, the Norwegian Mission Covenant, the Swedish Alliance Mission, the Swedish Evangelical Mission, the Swedish sanctifying mission, the Swiss Alliance Mission and the Vandsburger branch of the German Association of Community diakonia.