Petr Pokorný (M / Czechia, 1933-2020), scholar

Petr Pokorný (1933-2020) is a Czech scholar. Born in 1933 in Czechoslovakia, Petr Pokorný earned his Mgr. (M.Div.) from the Comenius Faculty of Protestant Theology in Prague and his Ph.D. and Dr.Sc. from Oxford University [England]. He has taught at the Comenius Faculty, the University of Greifsward, and at the Charles University Protestant Faculty of Theology as professor, director of the Biblical Institute and dean of the faculty. He was visiting professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the University of Tübingen. In 1978, he participated in the third Nag Hammadi expedition. In 1988, he conducted excavations in Jordan with the German Protestant Institute for the Archeology of the Holy Land. He is a member and past president of Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, and a member and past chairman of the Scholarly Forum of the United Bible Societies for Europe and the Middle East.