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Ernest Renan

1823 - 1892

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Joseph Ernest Renan (; 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 debunked 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ernest Renan is the 194th most popular philosopher (down from 175th in 2019), the 448th most popular biography from France (down from 392nd in 2019) and the 24th most popular French Philosopher.

Renan was a French philosopher and historian who is most famous for his work on the life of Jesus.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernest Renan ranks 194 out of 1,267. Before him are Bernard Bolzano, Gemistus Pletho, Pierre Gassendi, Pierre Bayle, Kabir, and Apollonius of Tyana. After him are Nicolas Malebranche, John Rawls, Max Horkheimer, Christian Wolff, Diotima of Mantinea, and Slavoj Žižek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Ernest Renan ranks 6. Before him are Max Müller, Abdulmejid I, Phineas Gage, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Gyula Andrássy. After him are Sándor Petőfi, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, and Li Hongzhang. Among people deceased in 1892, Ernest Renan ranks 5. Before him are Bahá'u'lláh, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, Walt Whitman, and Werner von Siemens. After him are John Couch Adams, Alexander Mackenzie, Édouard Lalo, Richard Owen, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Rudolf von Jhering, and Annibale de Gasparis.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ernest Renan ranks 448 out of 6,770. Before him are Gérard Philipe (1922), Charles Le Brun (1619), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Olympe de Gouges (1748), Hans Bethe (1906), and Anouk Aimée (1932). After him are Henry of Flanders (1174), Jean Genet (1910), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), Robert I of France (860), and Paul Barras (1755).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Ernest Renan ranks 24. Before him are Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Jean Baudrillard (1929), Pierre Gassendi (1592), and Pierre Bayle (1647). After him are Nicolas Malebranche (1638), Étienne Bonnot de Condillac (1714), Jean-François Lyotard (1924), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881), Joseph de Maistre (1753), and Gaston Bachelard (1884).

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