Roger Mehl

Nationality

France

Date of Birth

1912

Date of Death

1997

Political
Preference

After graduating in philosophy in 1935, Roger Adolphe Mehl taught at the Protestant Gymnasium in Strasbourg. During the Second World War he served as an interpreter and became a teacher at a high school in Marseilles in 1940. In 1942, Mehl went to study theology at the Protestant Faculty of the University of Strasbourg and later became pastor for the Reformed Church of France in Alès (1944 to 1945), and Alsace and Lorraine (1947). After the war, Mehl started to teach at Strasbourg as a lecturer in philosophy of religion. Mehl is particularly attached to the concept of religious sociology.
He served on the council of the Fédération protestante de France, the organization led for a long time by Marc Boegner, from 1955 to 1970. He was a founding member of the Ecumenical Commission for European Cooperation and served on the WCC Central Committee from 1968 to 1975.