Maurice Vernes Explained

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]

Notes and References

1. http://www.roelly.org/~pro_picards/prop/pag45.html#38 TROCMÉ, Marie - Roelly
2. http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=106181# Vernes, Maurice
3. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Vernes,Maurice,1845-1923.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library