Irena Backus
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Professor Irena Backus | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1950 |
| Died | 13 June 2019 Geneva, Switzerland |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Somerville College, Oxford |
| Thesis | Influence of Theodore Beza on the English New Testament (1976) |
| Doctoral advisor | S. L. Greenslade |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Intellectual history |
| Sub-discipline | The Reformation |
| Institutions | University of Geneva |
| Main interests | Reformation-era biblical studies and patristics |
| Website | www |
Irena Dorota Backus (1950 – 13 June 2019) was a professor of the History of the Reformation at the University of Geneva.
Born in Poland in 1950, Backus studied at Somerville College, Oxford. She obtained her doctorate in 1976, with a thesis on Theodore Beza's influence on the English New Testament, published in 1980 as The Reformed Roots of the English New Testament: The Influence of Theodore Beza. From 1982 she was employed at the Institute for Reformation History in Geneva. A Festschrift in her honour was published in 2018, Crossing Traditions: Essays on the Reformation and Intellectual History in Honour of Irena Backus, edited by Maria-Cristina Pitassi and Daniela Solfaroli Camillocci with the collaboration of Arthur Huiban (Leiden, Brill).
She was obliged to stop work by a stroke in 2014, and died in Geneva on 13 June 2019.[1]
