Hildegard Goss-Mayr

See also: Mayr

Hildegard Goss-Mayr (born the January 22nd 1930 in Vienna in Austria) is a major witness of the evangelic Non-violence in the world. It is the president of honor of the MIR and member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade and of that of the international Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence.

Girl of Kaspar Mayr, founder of the Austrian branch of the MIR, Hildegard Goss-Mayr made her studies of philosophy in Vienna and New Haven (A). In 1953, it is the first woman to obtain her doctorate sub auspiciis .

1958 It marries Jean Goss (1912-1991).

1960 Birth of his/her children Myriam and Etienne.

1962 It begins its work in Latin America in favor of the construction of a non-violent movement. She collaborates then with Dom Hélder Câmara, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel which obtained the Nobel Prize of Peace in 1980, Dom Fragoso, bishop of Cratéus (Brazil), or Mgr Oscar Romero.
Elle had a determining role with her husband Jean Goss in the preparation of the Revolution in Philippines in 1986.
Elle made of many groups to active non-violence in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Distinctions

Named for the Nobel Prize of peace in 1979 (allotted to Mère Teresa), in 1987 (in Óscar Sánchez Arias) and in 2005 among the “1000 women for the Nobel Prize 2005”.
Prix Bruno-Kreisky (Austria) 1979
Prix Niwano of peace (Japan) 1991
Prix Hildegard Goss-Mayr for non-violence activates IFOR 2003.

Works

  • Another revolution. Violence of non-violent the , Paris, Stag, 1969.
  • Der Mensch VOR dem Unrecht. Spiritualität und Praxis. Gewaltlose Befreiung , Vienna, 1976 Frenchwoman of chapter 2 in '' Cahiers of the Reconciliation '', n° 3-2005, 48 p. (published by the French branch of the MIR)
  • Gerard Hoover, Jean and Hildegard Goss-Mayr, non-violence, it is the life , Arudis, Utovie, 1986.
  • Évangile and fights of peace , Paris, Bergers and Magi, 1989.
  • Friede braucht Bewegung. Analysen und Perspektiven der Friedensbewegung in Österreich , with Thomas Roithner and Pete Hämmerle.
  • To dare the non-violent combat at the sides of Jean Goss , Paris, Stag, 1998, foreword of the cardinal Franz König.

External bonds

  • Articles of Hildegard Goss-Mayr in German

  • Collection of articles of Hildegard Goss-Mayr in German

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