Oscar Michelsen


Johan Oscar Michelsen was a Norwegian missionary to the New Hebrides.
Michelsen emigrated from Norway to New Zealand, where he sold religious literature on the Otago goldfields. He applied to the Synod of Otago and Southland to become a missionary, and was appointed to the island of Tongoa in 1878. He served there until his retirement in 1933.
Michelsen had a little formal education and was known as a good speaker. J. Graham Miller calls him "one of the least educated but most gifted, versatile and warm-hearted" of the pioneer missionaries to Vanuatu.
Michelsen wrote Cannibals Won for Christ and Misi.

Family

Michelson married Miss Langmuir in 1880.