Maurice Vernes (25 September 1845, in Nauroy – 29 July 1923, in Paris) was a French Protestant theologian and historian of religion.[1]

He studied theology at the Protestant seminary in Montauban and the University of Strasbourg, receiving his doctorate in 1874. From 1877 he taught as a lecturer at the Sorbonne, and two years later, became a professor at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Paris (Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris). In 1886, he was named director-adjoint at the École pratique des hautes études (section on religious sciences). From 1901 he taught classes as a professor at the Collège libre des sciences sociales (CLSS) in Paris.[2]

In 1880 he founded the journal, Revue de l'Histoire des religions.

Selected works

  • Histoire des idées messianiques depuis Alexandre jusqu'a l'empereur Hadrien, (graduate thesis, 1874) – History of messianic ideas from Alexander the Great up until Hadrian.
  • Mélanges de critique religieuse, 1880 – Collection of religious critiques.
  • L'histoire des religions; son esprit, sa méthode, et ses divisions, son enseignement en France et à l'etranger, 1887 – The history of religions; its spirit, methods and divisions, its teaching in France and abroad.
  • Une nouvelle hypothèse sur la composition et l'origine du Deutéronome, 1887 – A new hypothesis about the composition and origin of Deuteronomy.
  • Du prétendu polythéisme des Hébreux; essai critique sur la religion du peuple d'Israël, suivi d'un examen de l'authenticité des écrits prophétiques, 1891 – On alleged polytheism of the Hebrews; critical essay on the religion of the people of Israel.
  • Les croyances populaires : leçons sur l'histoire des religions professées à l'Université nouvelle de Bruxelles (by Élie Reclus, foreword by Vernes; 1908) – Popular beliefs: Lessons on the history of religion taught at the new University of Brussels.
  • Histoire sociale des religions, 1911 – Social history of religions.
  • La crise de la religion en France, 1911 – The crisis of religion in France.
  • Les emprunts de la Bible hébraïque au grec et au latin, 1914.[3]

References

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