Henri Tincq

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Henri Tincq (born November 2, 1945 in Fouquières-lès-Lens , † March 29, 2020 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges ) was a French journalist .

Life

Henri Tincq studied philosophy at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and completed a degree in journalism at the École supérieure de journalisme de Lille . He worked for many years, from 1981 as deputy editor-in-chief, for the Roman Catholic daily newspaper La Croix before he worked for the renowned daily newspaper Le Monde from 1985 to 2008 . Since his retirement he has occasionally written for the French version of Slate .

Tincq specialized in religious, Vatican and papal history. In addition to his articles, he has published several books on these topics since 1991. He has received several awards for this work. In 2001 he received a Templeton Prize in the journalism category and was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2007.

On March 29, 2020, Tincq died at the age of 74 as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection during the COVID-19 pandemic in France in a hospital in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges.

Publications (selection)

  • L'Église pour la democratie (1991)
  • L'Étoile et la Croix (1993)
  • Les Médias et l'Église: évangélisation et information (1997)
  • Défis au pape du troisième millénaire: le pontificat de Jean-Paul II, les dossiers du successeur , (1997)
  • Les Génies du christianisme: histoires de prophètes de pécheurs et de saints (1999)
  • Vivre l'islam (2003)
  • Une France sans Dieu (2003)
  • Larousse des religions (2005)
  • Ces papes qui ont fait l'histoire (2006)
  • Les Catholiques (2008)
  • Catholicisme: le retour des intégristes (2009)
  • Jean-Marie Lustiger: le cardinal prophète (2012)
  • La grande peur des catholiques de France (2018)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "French journalist Henri religion Tincq died" , katholisch.de of 30 March 2020 called on April 1, 2020
  2. ↑ Mort de Henri Tincq, grande plume de l'information religieuse , la-croix.com , accessed on March 31, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Tincq, Henri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Fouquières-lès-Lens , France
DATE OF DEATH March 29, 2020
Place of death Villeneuve-Saint-Georges , France