Michael Schmidt-Salomon

Michael Schmidt-Salomon (born 14 September 1967 in Trier) is a German author, philosopher, and public relations manager. As chairman of the Giordano Bruno Foundation, a humanist organization that is critical of religion, he has been identified as Germany's "Chief Atheist." His books include the Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism: A Plea for a Contemporary Culture, and Die Kirche im Kopf (The Church in the Head). His children's book Wo bitte geht's zu Gott?, fragte das kleine Ferkel ("Which is the way to God, please?, little Piglet asked") caused controversy for its depiction of religion.

Schmidt-Salomon studied education sciences at the University of Trier, earning his master's degree in educational theory in 1992, and his PhD. in 1997. From 1992 to 2001 he worked as a research assistant and lecturer at the University of Trier. The main focuses of his work are science theory,anthropology, aesthetics, society theory, futurology, religious criticism and ideology criticism, as well as practical ethics. He began lecturing at the Institut D'Etudes Educatives et Sociales (IEES) in Luxembourg in 2002. From 1999 to 2007, Schmidt-Salomon was editor of the journal MIZ (Contemporary Materials and Information: The Political Magazine for Atheists and the Irreligious) He has been CEO of the Giordano Bruno Foundation since 2006.

Schmidt-Salomon lives in Vordereifel, and has a non-traditional family consisting of two biological children, three adopted children, and three other adults. He has debated Christian philosopher, theologian and apologist William Lane Craig on the existence of God.

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