Georg Boldt

Georg Didrik Boldt (24 August 1862 – 21 June 1918 ) was a Finnish philosopher of religion who was known as a socialist and tolstoyan.

Life Boldt entered the University of Helsinki in 1880. After earning his doctorate in 1902 on the dissertation on the relation between Immanuel Kant and protestantism, Boldt moved to Turku where he worked as a teacher.

Boldt strongly criticized the state, conservative society and the established religious authorities. According to Boldt, the Christian leaders like Paul and Augustine had distorted the words of Jesus Christ. Boldt was influenced by the renaissance philosophers like Thomas More and Tommaso Campanella. He was also familiar with Petr Kropotkin and Mikhail Bakunin, although did not support anarchism, and was particularly interested on the pacifist philosophy of Leo Tolstoy.

Family Boldt was born to the family of the general Johan Didrik Boldt and Anna Christina Frosterus, who was the daughter of the bishop Robert Frosterus. His brothers were the local historian Robert Boldt (1861–1923), the anarchist Jean Boldt (1865–1920) and the author Alexander Boldt (1873–1956). Boldt was married with Hildur Katarina Karlsson in 1906.

Works Protestantismens idé och Immanuel Kant (1900) Vid orkanens utbrott : en återblick (1910) Franska revolutionen : den nya tidens prolog (1912) En teologisk polemik mellan ärkebiskop och överlärare i religion (1913) Solkorset och korset på Golgata (1915) Platon (ett föredrag) (1915)