Gwendoline Jarczyk (23 August 1927 – 18 November 2021)[1] was a French philosopher, historian of philosophy and translator, specialising in Hegel and Master Eckhart.
Gwendoline Jarczyk was born in Katowice, Poland, in 1927 to a Polish father, a doctor, and a French mother from Normandy.
[3] She contributed to the Christian newspapers La Croix[4] and France Catholique Ecclesia[5] and publishes in the Jesuit journals Christus[6] and Études.
In 1997 she published her interfaith talks with Raimon Panikkar, an Indo-Spanish theologian, on the themes of the Divine, Man and the Cosmos.
[8] She has also taken an interest in the work of the Vietnamese Marxist philosopher Tran Duc Thao, whose correspondence with Alexandre Kojève she published with Labarrière, the author of the lessons on Hegel that became famous in France in the 1930s.