Rémi Gounelle

Rémi Gounelle (5 January 1967, Dreux) is a French protestant theologian, a professor of history of early Christianity at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg [fr] and dean of that same faculty since 2010.

Rémi Gounelle holds a doctorate from the École pratique des hautes études, section of Religious Sciences, and a doctorate in theology from the Lausanne University.

He is also related to pastor Élie Gounelle [fr] and Michel Hollard, a member of the French resistance .

In 2003–2004, he was a lecturer in the Faculty of Theology of the University of Neuchâtel and scientific collaborator of the Romand Institute of Biblical Studies.

Rémi Gounelle's research interests include the Acts of Pilatius and the "cycle of Pilate", the Latin narratives of Christ's descent into hell, the formation of the canonical Scriptures and the statutes of the Biblical apocrypha, as well as the homilies by Eusebius of Alexandria and the Syrian-Palestinian literature of the fourth and fifth centuries, among others Cyril of Jerusalem and Eusebius of Emesa.