author
Hilbrandt Boschma
1869–1954
A Dutch Protestant writer, teacher, and evangelist, he wrote widely on faith and public life and became known for his pacifist and anti-alcohol views. His work reflects a broad picture of Dutch Protestant thought in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Blank en Bruin
by Hilbrandt Boschma
About the author
Born in Kubaard on August 5, 1869, and later dying in Hilversum on December 9, 1954, he was a Dutch Reformed evangelist, schoolteacher, theologian, and writer. Sources consistently describe him as an outspoken antimilitarist, pacifist, and teetotaler, and his writing seems to have grown out of those convictions as much as out of his religious work.
He published in many forms on questions of religion and worldview, and later scholarship notes that he was read across different layers of Dutch society and among more than one Protestant current. His life and work have been described as offering a window onto Dutch Protestantism of his time, especially the ethical-orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church.
Some of his writing is still cataloged and preserved in Dutch literary and academic collections, which suggests a lasting historical interest even if he is not widely known today.