EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; MARIELEINE HOFFETT P/7

 

In this brief post I will focus on a woman named Marieleine Hoffett. She lived from 1905 - 1996. Marieleine was a pastor's daughter who studied theology in Strassburg, Geneva and Edinburgh. She was a vicar with the Reformed Church of Alsace Lorraine and got married in 1931. She took an active part in the resistance movement and in 1945 accepted a position no one wished to take, namely chaplain in former collaborators' internment camps.She then turned to women's bible teaching. She fought against the rule forbidding married women to become pastors, which was suspended in 1968.