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Ernest Renan

French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)

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Ernest Renan was a French philosopher and writer who lived from 1823 to 1892 and became influential in nineteenth-century intellectual circles. He matters because his work helped shape modern European thought during a period of significant cultural and scientific change.

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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

chansonchanson françaisefolk rockfrenchvariété française

Discography

Quatre titres (guitare-voix), en attendant l'album…2006
Les Voisines2006
Les Voisines2006
Repenti2006
La Lettre2007
Monsieur Marcel2008
La Fille de la bande2009
On n'est pas à une bêtise près2009
Le Clan des miros2009
Nantes2010

Official site Discogs Stream

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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

~33 min read

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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