Gilles Quispel

Gilles Quispel (* May 30, 1916 in Rotterdam, † March 2, 2006 in El Gouna ) was a Dutch theologian, church and religious historians. His Forschungssschwerpunkt was in the range of Gnosis.

Life

Gilles Quispel was born on 30 May 1916 in Rotterdam. Shortly after his birth, he and his family moved into the rural Kinderdijk, a small village in the Netherlands by his father as a blacksmith found a job. Breakfast, however, recognized the parents that Gilles was too skinny and awkward to pursue a hard physical work, and so they sent him to high school. He then studied classical philology, the culture of the Middle East and theology in Leiden and Groningen and, finally received his PhD in Utrecht in 1943 with a dissertation on Tertullian's writings. Around this time, probably originated his research on the Nag Hammadi writings and the Gospel of Thomas

From 1946 to 1951 he taught Latin at the high school suffering. Then he moved to the University, where he was appointed in 1951, so at the age of 35, in Utrecht professor of church history. After this time, he took one after the other also professor in Louvain and Harvard, from which he did in 1976 fully retired.

Gilles Quispel died on 2 March 2006 at the age of 90 years unexpectedly from the effects of pneumonia during a stay in Egypt.

Works

Among his most important writings include in the research circle among other things:

• " Tatian and the Gospel of Thomas: Studies in the History of the Western Diatessaron " (1975)
• "Jewish and Gnostic Man" (1986 )
• " Gnosticism as a world religion " (1951)

• Theologian ( 20th century)
• Church historian
• Historians of religion
• Netherlander
• Born 1916
• Died in 2006
• Man