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Ernest Renan
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Ernest Renan was a male author from France, with a work period beginning in 1848. He was born on 28 February 1823 and died on 2 October 1892. His notable works include *Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?*, *Historia del pueblo de Israel*, *Mahomet et les Origines de L'Islamisme*, *Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse*, and *L'église chrétienne*.
Renan is recognized in the Academie Francaise collection. His writings are referenced by 1,268 other encyclopedia articles. Various databases list his works count ranging from 5 to 701.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 February 1823
- Died
- 2 October 1892
- Works
- 701
Top works
- Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?
- Historia del pueblo de Israel
- Mahomet et les Origines de L'Islamisme
- Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse
- L'église chrétienne
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1980-03-05
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale
· 1995 · cited 5,591x
- Revised American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2009 · cited 5,524x
- The CCPN data model for NMR spectroscopy: Development of a software pipeline
· 2005 · cited 3,178x
- Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry
· 2008 · cited 3,022x
- Configuration interaction calculations on the nitrogen molecule
· 1974 · cited 2,841x
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Quotes
- “To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.”
- “All agreed in rejecting that blasphemy, that Greece was ever a province of Asia, that the Greek spirit, so free, so objective, so limpid, could contain any element of the vague and obscure spirit of the Orient.”
- “As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.”
- “[L]e communisme étant contraire à la nature humaine.”
- “The Semites did not understand the variety, the plurality, the genders in God: the word goddess in Hebrew is the most horrible barbarism.”
- “Nature, on the other hand, plays a very small role in the Semitic religions: the desert is monotheistic; sublime in its immense uniformity, it primarily revealed to man the idea of 'infinite.'”
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Works in European collections
36 objects attributed to Ernest Renan, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
De l'origine du langage
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques - Première partie,: Histoire générale des langues sémitiques /
De l'origine du langage
Études d'histoire religieuse
Études d'histoire religieuse
La chaire d'hébreu au Collège de France explications a mes collègues
Vie de Jésus
Essais de morale et de critique
Vie de Jésus
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques - Première partie,: Histoire générale des langues sémitiques /
De l'origine du langage
Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques - Première partie,: Histoire générale des langues sémitiques /
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Encyclopedic overview
Joseph Ernest Renan (/rəˈnɑːn/; French: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ʁənɑ̃]; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrote works on the origins of early Christianity, and espoused popular political theories especially concerning nationalism, national identity, and the superiority of white people over other human races.
Renan is among the first scholars to advance the Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted the Jewish religion and allegedly migrated to central and eastern Europe following the collapse of their khanate. On this basis he alleged that the Jews were "an incomplete race."
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