Étienne Trocmé (8 November 1924 – 12 August 2002) was a French historian of the birth of Christianity. A

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and Christianity of the 1st century scholar, Trocmé is the author of several works including ''Jésus de Nazareth'' (1972) and ''Enfance du christianisme'' (1997).

Biography

After he was a student at the

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(1946) and the

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, Etienne Trocmé studied literature and theology from 1947 to 1950, then in 1950 passed his

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(1960) He also spent one year at the

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(1946-1947) and another one at the

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(1950–1951), where he familiarized with the German language and followed lessons by

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of the

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*Honorary degree of the

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in Tokyo His biographer Christian Wolff mentions he did not wear his decorations.Christian Wolff, Biographie d'Étienne Trocmé in Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes, année 2003, Volume 161, Numéro 161-2, (p. 769–772) http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/bec_0373-6237_2003_num_161_2_463650

Publications

Étienne Trocmé wrote more than 200 articles and books translated into several languages.

Memoirs

*''Le Commerce rochelais de la fin du XVe au début du XVIIe'', thèse, École des Chartes, 1952 * ''La formation de l'évangile selon Marc'', thèse d'État, Paris 1963

Books

* ''Jésus de Nazareth vu par les témoins de sa vie'', Delachaux & Niestle, 1971. * ''Le christianisme des origines au Concile de Nicée'', 1972 * ''Le Christianisme des origines à 325'' in

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, Histoire des religions, t. II, 1972 * ''The Passion as Liturgy : a Study in the origin of the Passion narratives in the four Gospels'', 1983 * ''La Rochelle protestante (1568-1628)'' in ''Histoire de La Rochelle'', Privat, 1985, (2e éd. 1991) * ''L'enfance du christianisme'', Hachette, coll. « Pluriel », 1999. *
L'évangile selon saint Marc
', Labor et Fides, coll. « Commentaire du Nouveau Testament, deuxième série », 2000. * ''Quatre Évangiles, Une Seule Foi'', Les Bergers Et Les Mages, coll. « Petite Bibliothèque Protestante », 2001. * ''Saint Paul'', coll.

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, PUF, 2003 (posthumous)

References

Sources

* Christian Wolff, Biographie d'Étienne Trocmé in ''Bibliothèque de l'école des Chartes'', année 2003, Volume 161, issue 161-2, (p. 769–772
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* Christian Wolff, « Étienne Trocmé », in ''

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'', vol. 37, (p. 3910)