Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt

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Rudolf Alfred Bosshardt (1 January 1897 – 1993) was a Protestant Christian missionary in China. He served with the China Inland Mission.

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R. A. Bosshardt, The Restraining Hand: Captivity for Christ in China (1936)
R. A. Boßhardt: Im Schatten des Allmächtigen. Erlebnisse des Missionars R. A. Boßhardt in der Gefangenschaft der Roten. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von Dr. Ernst Witt. Bad Liebenzell: Buchhandlung der Liebenzeller Mission 1937 (156 S., einige Abb. auf Bildtafeln)
R. A. Bosshardt, with Gwen and Edward England, The Guiding hand: Captivity and Answered Prayer in China (1973)
Leslie T. Lyall, A Passion far the Impossible: The Continuing Story of the Mission Hudson Taylor Began (2d ed., 1976), chap. 3
Harrison Salisbury, The Long March: The Untold Story (1985)
Jean Watson, Bosshardt: A Biography (1995)
The Guardian, November 8, 1993 (obit.).