Minneapolis Veckoblad

Minneapolis Veckoblad's founder E. August Skogsbergh; portrait by Dewey Albinson (1931)

Minneapolis Veckoblad ('Minneapolis Weekly', also spelled Minneapolis Weckoblad) was a Swedish-language newspaper for Mission Friends published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. It was founded in 1884 by preacher Erik August Skogsbergh under the name Svenska kristna härolden ('The Swedish Christian Herald')[1][2] but was published under the new name from October 1887 to February 1906.[3] In 1890 a corporation took over the publication of the newspaper.[4] In 1906, its name was changed to Veckobladet.[5] Skogsbergh served as the newspaper's editor for some time; Andrew Johnson, K. Newquist, and Erik Dahlhielm [sv] would later be its editors.[5][6] Minneapolis Veckoblad described itself as a "Christian and political newspaper".[1][4] In 1904, it was described as "one of the most widely distributed Swedish newspapers in America."[7]

The majority of its content was from a Mission Friends (Mission Covenant) theological perspective. Students from Skogsbergh's school for Swedish immigrants translated content into Swedish for the newspaper. The newspaper often covered preacher Dwight Moody, featuring his sermons and information about his revival meetings, as well as asking readers to support his mission work to soldiers during the Spanish-American War. The sermons of Paul Petter Waldenström, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Charles Spurgeon, and others were also frequently published.[8] Skogsbergh contributed his own popular column, "Observations and Reflections", featuring his thoughts on a number of topics.[2]

Author Sigge Strömberg [sv; no; fr] worked for the paper as a young man from 1904 to 1905.[9]

References

1. Ulmhed, Marie. "Här är ej civilisationen spridd, här har indianerna ännu sitt hemland: Om möjligheterna att skriva om svensk bosättning i Amerika och indianernas undanträngande i samma historia, utifrån indianoroligheter i Minnesota 1898". Växjö University (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2014-09-28.
2. Dahlhielm, Erik (1951). A burning heart: a biography of Erik August Skogsbergh. Covenant Press. pp. 109–110. OCLC 13145377. Archived from the original on 2023-04-14. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
3. "Newspapers". Augustana College. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
4. Söderström, Alfred (1899). Minneapolis minnen: kulturhistorisk axplockning frän qvarnstaden vid Mississippi (in Swedish). [publisher not identified]. p. 183. OCLC 181290429.
5. Skarstedt, Ernst (1917). Svensk-amerikanska folket i helg och söcken: Strödda blad ur svensk-amerikanernas historia: Deras öden och bedrifter, nederlag och segrar, livsintressen och förströelser, jamte biografiska uppgifter om ett antal markesman (in Swedish). p. 164. OCLC 484015477. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via Project Runeberg.
6. Stephenson, G. M. "J. Erik F. Dahlhielm". Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
7. Sundbeck, Carl (1904). "Åter i Minnesota". Svensk-Amerikanerna: Deras materiella och andliga strävanden (in Swedish). Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern. p. 380. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via Project Runeberg.
8. Gustafson, David M. (2008). D.L. Moody and Swedes: shaping evangelical identity among Swedish mission friends, 1867–1899 (PDF). Linköping University, Department of culture and communication. pp. 179–180. ISBN 978-91-7393-995-9. OCLC 225548281. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2023-04-10. Retrieved 2023-04-15.
9. "Strömberg, Sigfrid (Sigge) Natanael". Svenskt författarlexikon (in Swedish). Vol. 1. p. 783. Archived from the original on 2023-04-15. Retrieved 2023-04-15 – via Project Runeberg.