{{Short description|Danish missionary}} thumb|Tomb stone for Hans Nicolajsen on the Mt. Zion Cemetery in Jerusalem '''Hans Nicolajsen''',<ref>Friis, H C. Hans Nicolajsen. En dansk jødemissionær fra forrige århundrede. Israelsmissionens Bogfond, 1949.</ref> known as '''John Nicolayson''' (1803 in Løgumkloster – 1856 in Jerusalem) was a Danish missionary to Palestine for the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among the Jews.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cmj-israel.org/oldsite/biographies_Nicolayson.html |title=CMJ bio |access-date=2011-07-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110712234652/http://www.cmj-israel.org/oldsite/biographies_Nicolayson.html |archive-date=2011-07-12 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.lcje.net/bulletins/2003/72/72_02.html|title=Issue No. 72 (May. 2003)|last=Kjær-Hansen|first=Kai|website=www.lcje.net|access-date=2019-07-23|archive-date=2016-05-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160513191948/http://www.lcje.net/bulletins/2003/72/72_02.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was in effect the first representative of the British Christian mission to Jews in Palestine.<ref>Yaron Perry ''British mission to the Jews in nineteenth-century Palestine'' 2003 p22</ref> He was one of those who appealed against the Damascus affair, and was founder of Christ Church, Jerusalem, and Mount Zion Cemetery, Jerusalem as predecessor of Michael Alexander (bishop). thumb|Memorial plaque on Hans Nicolajsen's childhood home in Klostergade, Løgumkloster
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