François Bovon

François Bovon
Born	(1938-03-13)13 March 1938 Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Died	1 November 2013(2013-11-01) (aged 75) Aubonne, 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 (13 March 1938 – 1 November 2013) was a Swiss biblical scholar and historian of early Christianity. He was the Frothingham Professor Emeritus of the History of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. Bovon was a graduate of the University of Lausanne and held 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 was an honorary professor at the University of Geneva and in 1993 he received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden . He was president of the Swiss Society of Theology from 1973 to 1977.

Bovon was 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 also wrote 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)