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Similar André Caquot, Émile Bréhier, Raymond Bloch, Georges Balandier | ||
Henri-Charles Puech, (20 July 1902, Montpellier – 11 January 1986, aged 83) was a French historian who long helf the chair of History of religions at the Collège de France from 1952 to 1972.
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A philosopher by training, he was interested in Greek philosophy, especially in hermeticism and neoplatonism, before turning to the study of Christian doctrines of the early centuries, a discipline he long taught in the École pratique des hautes études. His teaching had a great influence on the development of patristics studies in the second half of the twentieth in France. But it is primarily as a result of the discovery of new documents in the study of Manichaeism and the various systems of Gnostic thought that he gained international recognition.
A long collaborator of the Revue de l'histoire des religions before he directed it, he presided the Association internationale pour l'étude de l'histoire des religions from 1950 to 1965.