Ilse Härter
German theologian
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Ilse Härter's Degrees
- Masters Religious Studies University of Tübingen
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ilse Härter was a centenarian German Lutheran theologian. On her thirty-first birthday, in 1943, she was one of the first two women to be ordained in Germany. Life Provenance and early years Ilse Härter was born in Asperden, a small village to the south of Kleve, and positioned within walking distance of the Dutch border. She was the second of her parents' three daughters. The family was not a particularly religious one, and Härter's career choice surprised her parents. She was asked about this later, and recalled a funeral ceremony for an aunt at which the celebrating minister had reassured those present that after three days the dead aunt would be resurrected. Intrigued, the child attempted to trigger a resurrection with a dead bird that she had found; but after being buried for three days the bird showed no sign of resurrection. She concluded that she would need to start with a living being, so she took her teddy bear, and waited till wash day. Persuading her mother to let her use the dirty water in which the clothes had been washed, she then thoroughly drowned the teddy bear in the dirty soapy water. She placed the "corpse" in a discarded cigar box, and gave the bear a dignified burial. Three days later she dug up the little grave, but there was no sign of the dead bear's condition having changed except that, since it was summer and he had been damp when buried, the body had acquired a garnish of mold. Clearly resurrection was no simple matter, but her determination to find out what it was all about was undiminished.
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