Renan, Ernest
RENAN, ERNEST (1823–1892) was a French Orientalist and essayist. Joseph Ernest Renan is a fragment of a mirror held up to nineteenth-century France. His life and work reflect espe...
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Renan, Joseph Ernest(1823–1892)
Joseph Ernest Renan, the French critic and historian, was born in Tréguier, Brittany. He studied for the priesthood at seminaries in Paris but left the se...
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A French author, philologist, archeologist, and founder of comparative religion, Ernest Renan (1823-1892) influenced European thought in the second half of the 19th century through his numerous writin...
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Renan, Ernest
Renan, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892)
Ernest Renan