28 Facts About Hendrik Pierson

Hendrik Pierson was a Dutch Lutheran minister and member of the Reveil religious revival movement.

Hendrik Pierson was president of the Ottho Gerhard Heldringstichting, an asylum for reformed prostitutes, from 1877 to 1914.

Hendrik Pierson was one of the leaders of the campaign to abolish state regulation of prostitution, and in 1898 became president of the International Abolitionist Federation.

Hendrik Pierson was born in Amsterdam on 10 July 1834, the fourth child of Jan Lodewijk Gregory Pierson and Ida Oyens.

Hendrik Pierson was influenced by the poetic piety of his mother and the prophetic spirit of Isaac da Costa.

Hendrik Pierson studied theology in Utrecht, and in 1857 became a minister in Heinenoord, in South Holland.

In 1869, Pierson moved to 's-Hertogenbosch, where he campaigned vigorously for Christian education.

Hendrik Pierson was chairman of the School Council, and formed an advocacy group for Christian education at the national level.

Hendrik Pierson established the first asylum for "fallen" women in Zetten, a village in Gelderland.

Hendrik Pierson accepted the appointment as president of the Heldringgestichten in Zetten in 1877.

In 1882 Hendrik Pierson added the Magdalena House for unmarried mothers, and in 1888 the Children's Home.

Hendrik Pierson established the training schools Hosa Semna and Hosa Euphema for girls aged six to fourteen, who were expected to go on to train as teachers.

Hendrik Pierson wrote books for the catechism, wrote poetry and became well known as a preacher.

Hendrik Pierson invited Pierson and his wife to come with him.

Hendrik Pierson was greatly impressed by Butler's speech where she discussed the God-given right of a woman to have control over her body.

Hendrik Pierson was persuaded to join the IAF despite his misgivings about the secular nature of the organization and the influence of socialist feminists.

Hendrik Pierson threw his energy into this cause, a struggle for the dignity of women.

In 1877 Hendrik Pierson published a translation of Butler's Une Voix dans le Desert, an account of a tour of Europe she had made a few years earlier to visit sympathizers of the abolitionist cause.

Hendrik Pierson edited the monthly Getuigen en Redden, established in 1878.

Hendrik Pierson spoke at the annual conferences of the IAF in Belgium in 1879 and London in 1881.

Hendrik Pierson impressed his audience with his opposition to legislation that treated prostitutes as "pariahs", and showed a strong belief in one moral standard for both rich and poor, men and women.

Hendrik Pierson took a central role in organizing the third IAF congress, which was held at The Hague in the Netherlands in 1883.

Hendrik Pierson called on his fellow-members of the Reveil movement to help with this congress.

Hendrik Pierson carefully studied the scientific literature on prostitution and official, legal and medical arguments for or against regulations.

Hendrik Pierson wrote against state-regulated prostitution and spoke at many public debates.

Hendrik Pierson explained that enforced regulations were counter to the law, hygiene and morality.

Hendrik Pierson spoke against the double standard in which the man was innocent but the woman guilty, and said that there was only one moral law for both men and women.

Hendrik Pierson was involved in the creation of the Children's Law which gave courts the right to relieve parents of their rights and transfer custody to orphanages.