Tuve Hasselquist
American minister (1816–1891)
Tuve Nilsson Hasselquist (March 2, 1816 – February 4, 1891), also known as T. N., was a Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader. He was the second president of Augustana College, serving from 1863 until his death in 1891.
Biography
Hasselquist was born in Hasslaröd (present Osby Municipality, Skåne County) in Sweden, to Nils Tufvesson and Sissa Svensdotter. The local parish priest convinced the father to send his son for further education, so he studied at a school in Kristianstad as a teenager, taking the surname Hasselquist. He enrolled at Lund University in 1835; while studying there, he was influenced by the Pietist Läsare movement, including Schartauanism, as well as the growing temperance movement and Peter Wieselgren's preaching. Hasselquist was ordained as a minister in the Church of Sweden by Bishop Faxe in Lund in 1839. He served as assistant pastor at several different churches in Skåne over the following thirteen years, becoming a revivalist and critical of the state church. He was known for his zeal and also spoke on the temperance issue together with Wieselgren.
Fellow Lutheran pastor Lars Paul Esbjörn arrived in Andover, Illinois, from Sweden in 1849 as the first Swedish Lutheran minister in the Upper Midwest. The church he founded in Galesburg, Illinois, was in need of a pastor after Gustaf Palmquist, who had initially had the role, openly became Baptist.
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