Maurice Vernes (25 September 1845, in Nauroy – 29 July 1923, in Paris) was a French Protestant theologian and historian of religion.
[1] He studied theology at the Protestant seminary in Montauban and the University of Strasbourg, receiving his doctorate in 1874.
In 1886, he was named director-adjoint at the École pratique des hautes études (section on religious sciences).
From 1901 he taught classes as a professor at the Collège libre des sciences sociales (CLSS) in Paris.
[2] In 1880 he founded the journal, Revue de l'Histoire des religions.