Carl Joseph Fast

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Tombstone of C.J. Fast in Fuzhou, ca. 1910

Carl Joseph Fast (simplified Chinese: 发士; traditional Chinese: 發士; pinyin: Fāshì;(also written as 法士) Foochow Romanized: Huák-sê̤ṳ; 1822 – November 13, 1850) was the second Swedish missionary sent to China[1] and the first Protestant missionary murdered in Fuzhou.[2]

On January 1, 1850, Fast arrived in Foochow (today Fuzhou) as the missionary from the Lutheran Lund Missionary Society of Sweden,[3] and was joined by Anders Elgqvist later that year. The mission they set up in China was short-lived. On November 13, 1850, the two missionaries were brutally assaulted by Chinese pirates when they were coming up the River Min after getting money from a ship. Armed with a pistol Elgqvist survived the attack, but Fast was killed on the spot.[4]

Fast was buried in Fuzhou Nantai.[2] An order was given by then-Fujian Governor Xu Jiyu (徐继畬) to capture the murderers within three days, and the case was finally settled on November 18, with three criminals brought to justice.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Så började svensk mission i Kina (Swedish)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Geil, William Edgar (1911): Eighteen Capitals of China ISBN 978-1-4021-6618-1
  3. ↑ Lund Missionary Society (LuMS)
  4. ↑ Carlson, Ellsworth C. (1974), The Foochow Missionaries 1847-1880 ISBN 978-0-674-30735-3
  5. ↑ 鸦片战争与徐继畬 (Chinese)
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