François Bovon

François Bovon
Born	13 March 1938 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Citizenship	Swiss
Alma mater	University of Lausanne University of Basel
Known for	Luc le théologien Das Evangelium nach Lukas (EKK)
Scientific career
Fields	New Testament Early Christianity
Institutions	Harvard Divinity School

François Bovon (born 13 March 1938) is a Swiss biblical scholar and historian of early Christianity. He is the Frothingham Professor Emeritus of the History of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Bovon is a graduate of the University of Lausanne and holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Basel. From 1967 to 1993, he taught in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Geneva. Bovon remains an honorary professor at the University of Geneva and has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Uppsala. He was president of the Swiss Society of Theology from 1973 to 1977.

Bovon is the author of numerous books on early Christianity, and co-edited the first volume of Écrits apocryphes chrétiens in the series La Pléiade (published by Gallimard). He has also written several books on Luke the Evangelist and the Gospel of Luke, including a major, critical commentary (in the series EKK).

Select Publications

• Révélations et écritures 1993
• Nouvel Âge et foi chrétienne 1999
• Les Derniers Jours de Jésus (Labor et Fides, 2004)
• Luc le théologien (Labor et Fides, 2006)
• L'Œuvre de Luc (Cerf)

External links

• François Bovon's faculty page at Harvard Divinity School