Carsten thiede biography

OBITUARY NOTICE—

See index for CA sketch: Born August 8, 1952, in Berlin, Germany; died of a heart attack December 14, 2004. Archaeologist, historian, educator, and author.

A New Testament scholar who was an ordained Anglican priest later in life, Thiede was a noted archaeologist and papyrologist whose work involved researching the history behind the Gospels. Born in post-war Germany, he attended the University of Berlin, where he studied comparative literature at the University of Geneva, and Queen's College, Oxford.

He came to Oxford in 1976 as a German National Scholarship Foundation Research Fellow, and two years later was hired as senior lecturer in comparative literature at Geneva.

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His expertise in ancient tongues and philology led to a passionate interest in studying early Christianity. Part of his work involved studying ancient papyri, a discipline at which he became an expert. Thiede later became the director of the Institute for Basic