Prof George Wells

Career: Nat Serv in coal mines 1944-45; lectr in German UCL 1949-64 (reader 1964-68), prof of German Birkbeck Coll London 1968-88; emeritus prof Univ of London 1988-

Books and Publications: Herder and After (1959), The Plays of Grillparzer (1969), The Jesus of the Early Christians (1971), Goethe and the Development of Science (1978), The Historical Evidence for Jesus (1982), Did Jesus Exist? (1986), The Origin of Language: Aspects of the Discussion from Condillac to Wundt (1987), J M Robertson - Liberal, Rationalist and Scholar (ed, 1987), Religious Postures (1988), Who Was Jesus? - A Critique of the New Testament Record (1989), Belief and Make-Believe (1991), What's in a Name? Reflections on Language, Magic and Religion (1993), The Jesus Legend (1996), The Jesus Myth (1999), The Origin of Language (1999), Can We Trust the New Testament? Thoughts on the Reliability of Early Christian Testimony (2004), Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity (2009); ed: C Lofmark: A History of the Red Dragon (1995), D F Strauss: The Old Faith and the New (1997); jt ed of three books by F R H Englefield: Language, Its Origin and Relation to Thought (1977), The Mind at Work and Play (1985), Critique of Pure Verbiage - Essays on Abuses of Language in Literary, Religious and Philosophical Writing (1990)