Wolf-Peter Funk

Wolf-Peter Funk (born 1943 in Oederan, Germany; died February 18, 2021, in Quebec City, Canada) was a German linguist and Coptologist known for his pioneering studies on Gnosticism, Manichaeism, and Coptic manuscripts such as the Nag Hammadi library.

Biography Wolf-Peter Funk was born in 1943 in Oederan, Germany as the only son of Johanna Roeber and Wolfgang Funk.

As a student of Hans-Martin Schenke, Wolf-Peter Funk was one of the founders of the Berlin Working Group for Coptic Gnostic Writings. As part of the research group in Berlin, he translated many texts in the Nag Hammadi library during the 1970s.

In 1986, Funk became a visiting professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at Laval University, specializing in Coptic linguistics and biblical and Gnostic literature. At Laval, he worked on the "Bibliothèque copte de Nag Hammadi" (Nag Hammadi Coptic Library) Project, and was later appointed associate professor at Laval. He has worked on digital concordances of the Nag Hammadi texts, which were originally stored on floppy disks. He has also worked on concordances of the Manichaean Kephalaia and the Manichaean Homilies.

Translations and concordances French translations and concordances published by Laval University Press:

(BCNH "Textes" no 36) (BCNH "Textes" no 35) (BCNH "Textes" no 34) (BCNH "Textes" no 30)

(BCNH "Textes" no 27) (BCNH "Textes" no 28) (BCNH "Textes" no 24)