"Erik Folke (1862–1939) was a Swedish missionary who went out to China on his own in 1887 and became the pioneer of Swedish missions there. The mission he started, soon renamed the Swedish Mission in China, worked in Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan in close association with the China Inland Mission. He translated the Daodejing and the Zhuangzi into Swedish and wrote Tänkare i det gamla Kina (Thinkers of Ancient China, 1922); in Chinese he wrote a history of the Old Testament and translated Luther's On the Freedom of a Christian and the Augsburg Confession."