Freule Christine de Bosch Kemper

Who was Freule Christine de Bosch Kemper?

Freule Christiane de Bosch Kemper was a Dutch writer. She was the daughter of the rich Professor Jeronimo de Bosch Kemper and a Maria Hulshoff. J. G. de Hoop Scheffer, then Mennonite pastor at Amsterdam, baptised her in 1861.

She began to concentrate on the education of young women in 1867, and to further that purpose moved in 1880 from Amsterdam to Amersfoort, where she opened her house as a school to educate all classes of young women for free. She and her sister Jeltje both championed women's rights, though Freule kept these ideas within her own circle. She bequeathed her stately home to become an old people's home and her other property to be administered by Mennonite directors for the improvement of women's material condition, as the "Christine-Stichting Foundation".