Jakob Ekman

Ekman was born in 1842 in Strömsbro, Gävleborg County, to vicar Lars Ekman and Katarina Charlotta Rydberg. He became a student at Uppsala University in 1862; during that time he found the Pietist revival movement through Carl Olof Rosenius' works and publication Pietisten. He was ordained in 1864 and graduated as a pastor in 1871. In 1869, Ekman married Maria Lovisa Sjöstrom (1848–1927), daughter of provost Carl Fredrik Sjöström and Lovisa Catharina Norman. and became its first president. From 1879 to 1886, he was a teacher at the church's school in Kristinehamn, as well as the school's director and then the missionary director of the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden. There had been much debate about his views due to his book ('The Fullness of the Gospel and Eternal Punishment', 1903). After leaving the Mission Covenant Church, he became managing director of (the Swedish Life Insurance Company), where he had been a member of the board since 1893. In 1891, Ekman was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology by the Congregationalist-affiliated Beloit College in Wisconsin, USA. In 1915, he died at his summer home at Furusund, Stockholm County, Sweden. He was buried at Norra begravningsplatsen. == Theological views ==

Ekman's views on ecclesiastical and theological issues deviated in several respects from standard Lutheran doctrine; he tended in some aspects towards more reformed views. == Political activity ==

From 1885 to 1887 Ekman represented the municipalities of Kristinehamn, Askersund, Nora and Lindesberg in the Riksdag's Andra kammare (lower house), and the constituency of Stockholm from 1891 to 1893 and 1894 to 1896. He was a member of the Old Lantmanna Party (1894), Lantmanna Party (1895), and independent (1896). Ekman was one of the founders of the Swedish parliamentary peace group in 1892 and participated in the Inter-Parliamentary Union's peace conferences in Rome in 1891 and The Hague in 1894. For more than a quarter of a century he was at the forefront of free church activities in Sweden and the promotion of its mission in other countries. In 1899 a conference on the Mission in China was organized, for which a collection of contributions from various missionary organizations was published with a foreword and contributions by Ekman. == Works ==

Ekman had his own publishing company, ; his books were largely self-published. • (1877) • (1879) • (1880) • (1882) • hymnal (1882) compiled by Jakob Ekman (3rd ed. January 1883) • (1883) • (1884) • (1886) • (1987) 47 pages. • (1887) • (1892) • (two volumes, 1889-1891; second edition 1893) • (3 parts in 5 volumes, 1896–1902) • A revised edition was published by (3 parts in 2 volumes, 1921–1922). • (1900) • (1901), revised and expanded edition, 54 pages. • (1903) • (1904) == References ==