Henri-Charles Puech
Henri-Charles Puech ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃ʁi ʃaʁl pɥɛʃ}}; 20 July 1902, Montpellier – 11 January 1986, aged 83) was a French historian who long held the chair of History of religions at the Collège de France from 1952 to 1972.
Biography
A philosopher by training, he was interested in Greek philosophy, especially in hermetism and neoplatonism, before turning to the study of Christian doctrines of the early centuries, a discipline he long taught in the École pratique des hautes études.
His teaching had a great influence on the development of patristics studies in the second half of the twentieth in France. But it is primarily as a result of the discovery of new documents in the study of Manichaeism and the various systems of Gnostic thought that he gained international recognition.
A long collaborator of the {{Interlanguage link multi|Revue de l'histoire des religions|fr}} before he directed it, he presided the Association internationale pour l'étude de l'histoire des religions from 1950 to 1965.
Honours
- Officier of the Légion d'honneur (1963)
- Commandeur of the Ordre of the Palmes académiques (1965)
- Commandeur of the Ordre national du Mérite (1969)
Work
- 1970: Histoire des religions, 3 vol., Éditions Gallimard
- 1978: En quête de la gnose, Paris, Gallimard, series "Bibliothèque des Sciences Humaines", 2 volumes Tome 1 : La Gnose et le Temps. Tome 2 : Sur l'évangile selon Thomas
- 1979: Sur le manichéisme et autres essais, Paris, Flammarion, series "Idées et recherches"
External links
- [http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/professeurs-disparus/henricharles_puech.htm Henri-Charles Puech] on the site of the collège de France
- [http://www.persee.fr/doc/crai_0065-0536_1988_num_132_4_14670 Notice sur la vie et les travaux d'Henri-Charles Puech, membre de l'Académie] on Persée
- [http://www.universalis.fr/encyclopedie/henri-charles-puech/ Puech, Henri-Charles] on E. Universalis
- [http://www.persee.fr/doc/reg_0035-2039_1952_num_65_306_3281 Allocution de M. Henri-Charles Puech, président] on Persée
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