Christian Bartolf

Christian Bartolf (born January 2, 1960 in Lübeck ) is a German educational and political scientist. Since November 1993 he has been the first chairman of the non-profit association “ Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum eV ” based in Berlin .

Life

Bartolf has been researching and documenting questions of non-violence , pacifism and conscientious objection since 1987 . His work has been cited by Surendra Bhana, Margaret Chatterjee, Eric Itzkin, Gideon Shimoni, Thomas Weber and other scholars of Gandhi and his contemporary witnesses, among others.

Bartolf published several works on Gandhi and Tolstoy , including a book on Leo Tolstoy's social philosophy and several books on Mahatma Gandhi in correspondence with famous contemporaries.

In 1986 he compiled articles and historical documents for a two-volume publication on the history of US pacifism for the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin . He was a professional advisor for conscientious objectors and head of a peace education media office for the Evangelical Church District in Berlin-Spandau and for the Evangelical Church between 1991 and 2006. He created twenty-one exhibitions on non - violence and pacifism for the non-profit association “ Gandhi-Informations-Zentrum eV ” , together with the Berlin Anti-War Museum , from 2008 to 2020.

In 2007, Bartolf took part in the Satyagraha Conference at the invitation of the Government of India. The results of this conference led to the UN resolution on June 15, 2007 for the " International Day of Non-Violence ", which is celebrated annually on October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi .

Works

Books

• My life is my message: the life and work of MK Gandhi . Weber, Zucht & Co., Kassel-Bettenhausen 1988; ISBN 3-88713-033-2
• Emancipation from the conscious pariah - Gandhi's practical idealism as nonviolent resistance . Berlin 1993; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-00-6
• Gandhi's pedagogy - independence through training through craft . Berlin 1993; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-01-4
• Tolstoy - Gandhi (From the Tolstoy - Gandhi dialogue on the doctrine of non-resistance) . Berlin 1993; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-02-2
• Bonhoeffer - a German Gandhi? (co-author: Dominique Blondeau). Berlin 1994; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-06-5
• The first stage. Tolstoy, Gandhi and the ethics of the vegetarian diet . Berlin 1996; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-08-1
• My conscience says no - selected reasons from conscientious objectors . Wichern-Verlag, Berlin 1996; ISBN 3-88981-090-X
• Hermann Kallenbach - Mahatma Gandhi's friend in South Africa (together with: Isa Sarid). Berlin 1997; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-10-3 )
• Letter to a Hindu - Taraknath Das, Leo Tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi . Berlin 1997; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-09-X
• We don't want violence. The Buber-Gandhi controversy . Berlin 1998; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-11-1
• The breath of my life: the dialogue between Mahatma Gandhi (India) and Bart de Ligt (Holland) about war and peace . Berlin 2000; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-14-6
• Origin of the doctrine of non-resistance. On social ethics and criticism of retaliation in Leo Tolstoy . Berlin 2006; Gandhi Information Center , ISBN 3-930093-18-9

Awards

• 2010: Awarded the "Shanti Doot" (Ambassador of the Peace Award) on the occasion of the "International Seminar on Education and Peace" of the "World Peace Movement Trust" in Mumbai (India)

Web links

• Literature by and about Christian Bartolf in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Gandhi through German eyes" , The Hindu , Sunday January 30, 2000.
• "Gandhi's dialogues are of sad topicality", Junge Welt , Berlin, September 29, 2004, magazine interview with Christian Bartolf
• "Christian Bartolf and Gandhi Information Center" as a member of " Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance - Against Extremism and Violence "
• Christian Bartolf: Resource Person on Gandhi , extensive internet sites Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad, India
• Satyagraha Centenary (Indian National Congress)
• review of "The First Step. Tolstoy, Gandhi and the Ethics of Vegetarianism" International Vegetarian Union
• Publications by Christian Bartolf (official website) (de)
• Publications by Christian Bartolf (official website) (en)

credentials

1. ↑ Surendra Bhana / Goolam Vahed. The Making of a Political Reformer. Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914, New Delhi: Manohar Press, 2005, p. 136, footnote 74 and p. 155, footnote 31 and Bibliography p. 176
2. ↑ Margaret Chatterjee. Gandhi and the Challenge of Religious Diversity: Religious Pluralism Revisited. New Delhi: Promilla, 2005, p. 301, footnote 31
3. ↑ Eric Itzkin. Gandhi's Johannesburg. Birthplace of Satyagraha. Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2000, p. 89, footnotes 131, 138 and Bibliography p. 90
4. ^ Gideon Shimoni. Community and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South Africa. Hanover: University Press of New England, Brandeis University Press, 2003, p. 279, footnote 21
5. ↑ Thomas Weber. Gandhi as disciple and mentor. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 76, footnote 26
6. ↑ eg Jeremy Adler and Richard Fardon: Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization: The Anthropological Thought of Franz Baermann Steiner, in: Franz Baermann Steiner, Jeremy D. Adler, Richard Fardon: Orientpolitik, Value, and Civilization (Methodology and History in Anthropology, Volume 3), p. 22, or: Mike Alfred: Johannesburg Portraits: From Lionel Phillips to Sibongile Khumalo. Johannesburg (South Africa): Jacana Media 2003, p. 128