Gérard Gertoux
Gérard Marcel Laurent Gertoux (1955–) is a French academic [1].
Gertoux is also a member of Jehovah's Witnesses, which in 2007 led to a dispute with his PhD supervisors, who described him as a 'fundamentalist'. This attracted the attention of Human Rights Without Frontiers, who allege he was discriminated against for his religious affiliation [2].
In 2013 Gertoux released the paper 'Dating the fall of Babylon and Ur thanks to Astronomical Events', in it, he produced extensive tables covering chronology through the first and second millennium BC. Interestingly, his tables for Babylon date the 18th year of Nebuchadnezzar II and the destruction of Jerusalem to 587 BC [3, p. 18].
In light of his published chronology (which is in contradiction with parts of Watch Tower theology), it is not clear what relationship he has with the religion today.
References
[1] G. Gertoux, “Curriculum Vitae,” Academia.edu. Oct. 2018, [Online]. Available: https://univ-lyon2.academia.edu/GerardGERTOUX/CurriculumVitae.
[2] Human Rights Without Frontiers, “Freedom of thought, conscience, religion or belief: France: Laicité, ‘Sects’ and Muslim Women’s Issues,” OCSE. Sep. 30, 2015, [Online]. Available: https://www.osce.org/files/f/documents/a/5/187476.pdf.
[3] G. Gertoux, “Dating the fall of Babylon and Ur thanks to Astronomical Events,” arXiv, 2013, [Online]. Available: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1309/1309.2758.pdf.