Henry Maurice Goguel (20 March 1880 – 31 March 1955) was Dean of the Protestant Faculty of Theology in Paris, director of studies at the École pratique des hautes études, and professor at the Sorbonne.Cuvillier, Elian. (2003). Maurice Goguel (1880-1955). Bulletin De La Société De L'Histoire Du Protestantisme Français (1903-) 149: 549–568.
He published a substantial body of work of historical research on early Christianity.Weaver, Walter P. The Historical Jesus in the Twentieth Century: 1900-1950. pp. 167-169 His Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? was an important rebuttal of the Christ myth theory.Grappe, Christian. (2014). Goguel, Maurice. In Craig A. Evans. The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Historical Jesus. Routledge. pp. 231-232.
He had three children, Elisabeth Labrousse, a philosopher, historian, and academic, Jean Goguel, a geologist and geophysicist, and François Goguel.
Selected publications The Religious Situation in France (1921) Jesus the Nazarene: Myth or History? (translation by Frederick Stephens, 1926) The Life of Jesus (translation by Olive Wyon, 1933) The Birth of Christianity (translation by H. C. Snape, 1953) Jesus and the Origins of Christianity (two volumes, 1960) The Primitive Church (translation by H. C. Snape, 1963)
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