Hendrik Kraemer

Hendrik Kraemer (born May 17, 1888 in Amsterdam , † November 11, 1965 in Driebergen ) was a Dutch reformed mission theologian, religious historian and resistance fighter .

Life

Hendrik Kraemer attended the mission school in Rotterdam from 1905 . In 1911 he began studying Indonesian languages and literature in Leiden . In 1921 he received his doctorate on a Javanese treatise from the 16th century . From 1921 to 1935 he was a research assistant for the Dutch Bible Society in the colony of the Dutch East Indies , now Indonesia.

After his return from colonial service he joined the Dutch Mission Council in 1936. From 1937 to 1947 he worked as a professor for the history of religion and the phenomenology of religion at the University of Leiden . During the occupation of the Netherlands by the Wehrmacht , he was one of the leading figures in the church's resistance to National Socialism and the German occupation, which is why he was taken hostage in 1942/43 and interned in a camp in St. Michielsgestel .

From 1948 to 1955 Kraemer was director of the Ecumenical Institute of the World Council of Churches in Bossey .

Fonts (selection)

The Christian message in a non-Christian world. (1938)
Religion and the Christian faith. (1956)
The communication of the Christian faith. (1956)
World cultures and world religions: The coming dialogue. (1960)

Honors

The Hendrik Kraemer House in Berlin was named after him.
The Theological Faculty of the University of Hamburg awarded Kraemer an honorary doctorate in 1965 .

literature

Werner Schüßler : Kraemer, Hendrik. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 4, Bautz, Herzberg 1992, ISBN 3-88309-038-7 , Sp. 577-580. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Literature by and about Hendrik Kraemer in the catalog of the German National Library
Hendrik Kraemer - A few words about the namesake of the house on the website of the Hendrik Kraemer House Berlin
Photography by Hendrik Kraemer [1]

Individual evidence

^ Johann Anselm Steiger: 500 years of theology in Hamburg: Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005 ISBN 978-3-11-018529-4 , p. 487

personal data
SURNAME	Kraemer, Hendrik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch historian of religion and resistance fighter
DATE OF BIRTH	May 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH	November 11, 1965
Place of death	Driebergen

[1] Johann Anselm Steiger: 500 years of theology in Hamburg: Hamburg as a center of Christian theology and culture between tradition and future . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2005 ISBN 978-3-11-018529-4 , p. 487