Maurice Goguel

Henry Maurice Goguel (20 March 1880 – 31 March 1955) was Dean of the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, and professor at the Sorbonne.[1]

He published a substantial body of work of historical research on early Christianity.[2] His Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? was an important rebuttal of the Christ myth theory.[3]

He had three children, Elisabeth Labrousse, a philosopher, historian, and academic, Jean Goguel, a geologist and geophysicist, and François Goguel.

  1. ^ Cuvillier, Elian. (2003). Maurice Goguel (1880-1955). Bulletin De La Société De L'Histoire Du Protestantisme Français (1903-) 149: 549–568.
  2. ^ Weaver, Walter P. The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. pp. 167-169
  3. ^ Grappe, Christian. (2014). Goguel, Maurice. In Craig A. Evans. The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus. Routledge. pp. 231-232. ISBN 0-415-97569-7