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Cornelis "Kees" Boeke (25 September 1884 – 3 July 1966) [1] was a Dutch reformist educator, Quaker missionary and pacifist.He is best known for his popular essay/book Cosmic View (1957) which presents a seminal view of the universe, from the galactic to the microscopic scale, and which inspired several films.
Sewel spent 25 years on his major work, The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People called Quakers.It was first published in Dutch, as Histori van de Opkompste, Aanwas en Voortgang der Christenen bekend by den naam van Quakers, Amsterdam, 1717 (another edition, 1742).
William Penn, the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, who had a Dutch mother, visited the Netherlands in 1671 and saw, first hand, the persecution of the Emden Quakers. [21] He returned in 1677 with George Fox and Robert Barclay and at Walta Castle, their religious community at Wieuwerd in Friesland , he unsuccessfully tried to convert the ...
Pages in category "Dutch Quakers" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beatrice Boeke-Cadbury;
Cornelis "Kees" Boeke was a Dutch Quaker. He did missionary work in England, the Netherlands, and what is now Lebanon. John Cadbury was an English Quaker who traveled to Ireland several times for missionary work. [13] He was also the founder of the Cadbury confectionary company. [14]
Quakers are people who belong to the Religious Society of Friends, a historically Protestant Christian set of denominations. Members refer to each other as Friends after John 15:14 in the Bible, and originally, others referred to them as Quakers because the founder of the movement, George Fox, told a judge to quake "before the authority of God ...
Jan de Hartog (April 22, 1914 – September 22, 2002) was a Dutch playwright, novelist and occasional social critic who moved to the United States in the early 1960s and became a Quaker. Early life [ edit ]
A Elisabeth Abegg (1882–1974), German educator who rescued Jews during the Holocaust Damon Albarn (b. 1968), English musician, singer-songwriter and record producer Harry Albright (living), Swiss-born Canadian former editor of The Friend, Communications Consultant for FWCC Thomas Aldham (c. 1616–1660), English Quaker instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area Horace ...