Gösta Raquette

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Gösta Rikard Raquette Missionary to East Turkestan Born 7 Feb 1871 Died 1945 Spouse Evelina Elisabet Björkgren

Gösta Rikard Raquette (also spelled Gustav, or Gustaf, sometimes Rikard is spelled Richard) (7 Feb. 1871-1945) was a missionary with the Mission Union of Sweden to Central Asia

Raquette was born on 7 February 1871 in Tolfta Parish, Uppsala County.

He served as a medical missionary in Baku and Buchara from 1895-96, Kashgar from 1896-1901, Yarkand from 1904-11 and once more in Kashgar from 1913-21, then he returned to Sweden via Tibet and India.

Raquette married Evelina Elisabet Björkgren on 16 May 1896.

After he returned to Sweden, and took up a lectureship at the University of Lund. Gunnar Jarring is one of his most well known pupils from his time teaching at the University.

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• Raquette, Gustaf, A contribution to the existing knowledge of the Eastern-Turkestan dialect as it is spoken and written at the present time in the districts of Yarkand and Kashgar, Helsingfors 1909.
• Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II, Stockholm, 1912-1914.
• Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part I and II, Stockholm, 1912-1914.
• Raquette, Gustaf, Eastern Turki grammar: practical and theoretical with vocabulary Part III, Stockholm, 1912-1914.
• Raquette, Gustaf, English-Turki dictionary based on the dialects of Kaschgar and Yarkand, Lund 1927.
• Raquette, Gustaf, Täji bilä Zohra: Eine osttürkische Variante der Sage von Tahir und Zohra, Lund 1930.
• Raquette, G., "Collection of Manuscripts from Eastern Turkestan. An Account of the Contents", särtryck ur C. G. Mannerheim, Across Asia from West to East 1906-08, Helsingfors 1940.
• Raquette, Gustaf, Kaschgarische wakf-urkunde aus der Khodscha-zeit Ost-Turkestans, 1930
• Raquette, G., Simplified Christian Doctrines for Muslims, Kashgar
• Raquette, G., Gustaf Raquette and Qasim Akhun's letters to Kamil efendi: ethnological and folkloristic materials from southern Sinkiang