Étienne Trocmé (8 November 1924 – 12 August 2002) was a French historian of the birth of Christianity.
A New Testament and Christianity of the 1st century scholar, Trocmé is the author of several works including Jésus de Nazareth (1972) and Enfance du christianisme (1997).
After he was a student at the École Nationale des Chartes (1946) and the École pratique des hautes études, Etienne Trocmé studied literature and theology from 1947 to 1950, then in 1950 passed his State doctorate (1960)[1] He also spent one year at the University of California, Los Angeles (1946-1947) and another one at the University of Basel (1950–1951), where he familiarized with the German language and followed lessons by Karl Barth.
His biographer Christian Wolff mentions he did not wear his decorations.
[3] Étienne Trocmé wrote more than 200 articles and books translated into several languages.