Kurt Marti

Kurt Marti (31 January 1921 – Bern, 11 February 2017)[1] was a Swiss theologian and poet.

[3] Marti attended the Freie Gymnasium in Bern together with Friedrich Dürrenmatt.

He then completed two semesters at the law faculty of the University of Bern before deciding to study Protestant theology.

He was involved in the fight against nuclear weapons, nuclear power plants, the U.S. intervention in Vietnam and was a co-founder of the development policy organization Berne Declaration and the dissident writers' group Olten, which was dissolved in 2002.

[citation needed] In his sermons, essays, poems and aphorisms Marti proved to be an engaged and critical man of letters.