Henri-Charles Puech
Henri-Charles Puech (French pronunciation: [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
[edit]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 Revue de l'histoire des religions before he directed it, he presided the Association internationale pour l'étude de l'histoire des religions from 1950 to 1965.
Honours
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Henri-Charles Puech on the site of the collège de France
- Notice sur la vie et les travaux d'Henri-Charles Puech, membre de l'Académie on Persée
- Puech, Henri-Charles on E. Universalis
- Allocution de M. Henri-Charles Puech, président on Persée
- Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni
- École Normale Supérieure alumni
- 20th-century French historians
- French historians of religion
- Historians of Gnosticism
- Academic staff of the Collège de France
- Academic staff of the École pratique des hautes études
- Officers of the Legion of Honour
- Commandeurs of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Fellows of the British Academy
- Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
- Writers from Montpellier
- 1902 births
- 1986 deaths
- Corresponding fellows of the British Academy