Christian Gottlob Barth (31 July 1799 – 12 November 1862) was a German Protestant minister, writer and publisher.

A representative of pietism in Württemberg, he is regarded as one of the fathers of the Christian revival (Erweckungsbewegung) there in the 19th century.

He then worked for the Calwer Verlagsverein [de] (Calw publishing association), which he had founded in 1833.

[2][3] He traveled to England and Scotland, and was a founding member of the World Evangelical Alliance (Weltweite Evangelische Allianz.

[6][7] He wrote in 1832 Zweymal zwey und fünfzig biblische Geschichten für Schulen und Familien (Twice fifty-two Biblical Stories for Schools and Families), a children's Bible, translated into English as Bible Stories, and then into various languages.