Gilles quispel wikipedia en

He was professor of early Christian history at Utrecht University. Born in Rotterdam , he was the son of a blacksmith from Kinderdijk. He himself was not handy enough to become a blacksmith, [ 1 ] and was thus sent to study at the gymnasium. He learned about Plato and gnosis from his teacher of ancient languages. After finishing secondary school in Dordrecht, Quispel studied classical philology from to at the Leiden University.

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He then became a secondary school teacher, but soon after went for the university, and he was appointed professor of the history of the early Church at Utrecht University in , at the age of At Leiden, he also began to study theology, which he continued at the University of Groningen. Quispel completed his doctoral work in at Utrecht University with a dissertation examining the sources utilized in Tertullian 's Adversus Marcionem.

He devoted study to several Gnostic systems, particularly Valentinianism. In , Quispel spent a year in Rome as a Bollingen fellow.

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Quispel served as a visiting professor at Harvard University in and at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Quispel also made contributions to the study of early "Jewish-Christian" traditions as well as Tatian 's Diatessaron a second-century gospel harmony. He became emeritus on 1 March He published five more books afterwards, including a work on Valentinus.

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