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Biography of Abraham Johannes Muste
Name: Abraham Johannes Muste
Birth Date: January 8, 1885
Death Date: February 11, 1967
Place of Birth: Zierikzee, Netherlands
Nationality: Dutch
Gender: Male
Occupations: pacifist
Abraham Johannes Muste
Abraham Johannes Muste (1885-1967), American pacifist, led the movement for world peace and pioneered in developing nonviolent resistance as a means of securing social change.On Jan. 8, 1885, A. J. Muste was born in Zierikzee, the Netherlands. His family emigrated to America six years later. He was raised in Grand Rapids, Mich., and attended Hope College, a church-affiliated school. In 1906 he entered the Theological Seminary of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Brunswick, N.J., and was ordained in 1909. That same year he married Anna Huizenga.While first minister of Fort Washington Collegiate Church in New York City, Muste attended Union Theological Seminary, where he received a bachelor of divinity degree magna cum laude in 1913. Strongly influenced by liberal theological doctrines and shocked by the wretchedness of the urban poor, he became increasingly socially committed. In 1914 he gave up his conservative parish to become minister of the Central Congregational Church in Newtonville, …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…of nonviolent resistance owed much to his example and influence. In 1965 and 1966 Muste coordinated the first massive public demonstrations against the Vietnam War, and in 1966 he went to Saigon with a group of CNVA activists. He died on Feb. 11, 1967. Further Reading Muste's works include Non-Violence in an Aggressive World (1940), War Is the Enemy (1942), Wage Peace Now (1942), Not by Might (1947), and The Camp of Liberation (1954). A good sampling of his shorter writings from 1905 to 1966 is provided in The Essays of A. J. Muste, edited by Nat Hentoff (1967). The only biography is Hentoff's extremely sympathetic Peace Agitator: The Story of A. J. Muste (1963). See also Lawrence S. Wither, Rebels against War: The American Peace Movement, 1941-1960 (1969).Robinson, Jo Ann, A.J. Muste, pacifist & prophet: his relation to the Society of Friends, Wallingford, Pa.: Pendle Hill Publications, 1981. Robinson, Jo Ann, Abraham went out: a biography of A.J. Muste, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.
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