Ernest Renan

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Ernest Renan was a 19th-century French philosopher, historian, and philologist best known for his influential works on early Christianity and his controversial book "Life of Jesus."

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Ernest Renan canonical 8
Joseph Ernest Renan 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf essayist
historian
human
philologist
philosopher
theologian
birthName Ernest Renan self-linksurface differs
surface form: Joseph Ernest Renan
burialPlace Cimetière de Montmartre
centuryOfActivity 19th century
child Ary Renan
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1823-02-28
dateOfDeath 1892-10-02
educatedAt Collège Stanislas de Paris
Collège de Tréguier
Saint-Sulpice Seminary, Paris
surface form: seminary of Saint-Sulpice
employer Collège de France
familyName Renan
fieldOfWork Oriental studies
biblical criticism
history of religions
philology
philosophy
givenName Ernest
Joseph
influenced modern biblical criticism
secular studies of religion
influencedBy German idealism
biblical scholarship
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned French
Greek
Hebrew
Latin
Syriac
mannerOfDeath natural causes
memberOf Académie française
movement historical-critical method
liberal Christianity
name Ernest Renan self-link
nativeLanguage French
notableIdea nation as a daily plebiscite
notableWork Histoire des origines du christianisme
La Réforme intellectuelle et morale
Life of Jesus
L’Avenir de la science
Qu’est-ce qu’une nation ?
Histoire des origines du christianisme
surface form: The History of the Origins of Christianity

Vie de Jésus
occupation historian
philologist
philosopher
university teacher
placeOfBirth Brittany
Côtes-d'Armor
France
Tréguier
placeOfDeath France
Paris
positionHeld chair of Hebrew at the Collège de France
religion Roman Catholicism
secularism
sexOrGender male
sibling Henriette Renan
spouse Cornélie Scheffer
workLocation Paris

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Ernest borneBy Ernest Renan
Philhellenes hasNotableMember Ernest Renan
Temple of Baalat Gebal excavatedBy Ernest Renan
Journal des débats hadContributor Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan name Ernest Renan self-link
Ernest Renan birthName Ernest Renan self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Joseph Ernest Renan