Tiel, CORNELIS PETRUS

Tiel, CORNELIS PETRUS, Dutch theologian, was born at Leyden, 16th December 1830, studied at the university there and at the Remonstrants' seminary at Amsterdam, and became Remonstrant pastor at Rotterdam (1856), professor in the seminary translated to Leyden (1873), and professor of the History of Religions in the university of Leyden in 1877. From its foundation in 1867 he collaborated with Kuenen, Loman, and Rauwenhoff in editing the well-known Theologisch Tijdschrift; and he has published a long series of important theological works. Of his writings there have been translated into English the Comparative History of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions (1869–72; Fr. trans. 1882; Eng. by James Ballingal, part i., The Egyptian Religion, 1882); Outlines of the History of Religion to the Spread of the Universal Religions (1876; Eng. trans. by J. E. Carpenter, 1878). Other works discuss the Gospel of John as a source of the Life of Jesus (1855), the Religion of Zarathustra (1864), Babylonisch-assyrische Geschichte (1886–87), &c.