Kurt Linck (born 1889), was a German writer of the ''
Religiongeschichteschule''. He wrote in
Latin, about the non-
Biblical
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references to
Jesus. His works are cited as a reliable source (e.g. for the usualness of the name
Chrestus in the
Roman Empire) in books written in the 1920s (''Judentum und Heidentum zur Zeit Christi und der Apostel'' by Dr. Joseph Felten
851 - 1929 1925, ''Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History'' by
Maurice Goguel, 1926) and in modern works (e.g. ''The Jesus of the Early Christians'' by
G. A. Wells
George Albert Wells (22 May 1926 – 23 January 2017) was an English scholar who served as Professor of German at Birkbeck, University of London. After writing books about famous European intellectuals, such as Johann Gottfried Herder and ...
, 1971, ''Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence'',
Robert E. Van Voorst, 2000, ''Den Jesus som aldrig funnits'', Roger Viklund, 2005).
Bibliography
*''De antiquissimis veterum quae ad Iesum Nazarenum spectant testimoniis'' (Verlag von Alfred Töpelmann, Giessen 1913) - Linck examines the supposed testimonies of
Pliny,
Tacitus,
Suetonius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (), commonly referred to as Suetonius ( ; c. AD 69 – after AD 122), was a Roman historian who wrote during the early Imperial era of the Roman Empire.
His most important surviving work is a set of biographies ...
and
Josephus. It was reviewed in ''The Truth about Jesus'' (''The American Journal of Theology'', Vol. 17, No. 4 (Oct., 1913), pp. 627–630).
* ''De Taciti quod ad Christianos spectattestimonio'' (1913)
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20th-century writers in Latin
1889 births
Year of death missing
20th-century German male writers