Within his lifetime, Renan was best known as the author of the enormously popular Life of Jesus (Vie de Jésus, 1863). [15][16] Renan attributed the idea of the book to his sister, Henriette, with whom he …

Ernest Renan was a French philosopher, historian, and scholar of religion, a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France. Renan was educated at the ecclesiastical college in his native town of …

Renan defined a nation, not by common language or common culture, but by the desire of a people to live together, which he summed up in a famous phrase, "avoir fait de grandes choses ensemble, …

In 1883 Renan delivered in Paris two discourses, on "Le Judaïsme Comme Race et Comme Religion" and "Le Judaïsme et le Christianisme" respectively; he contributed also to the "Revue des Etudes …

Throughout his career, Renan made frequent forays to the Near East, where he participated in archaeological digs. He was called to the chair of Hebrew at the College de France in 1862, but he …

Renan, born in Brittany, was one of the foremost French savants and authors of the 19 th century. Educated for the priesthood, Renan rebelled against the oppressive Catholic intellectual atmosphere, …

Renan, in contact with working scientists, rejected the simplistic notions of natural science characteristic of the positivism of Auguste Comte. He maintained that progress in the natural as well as in the …

Linguist, philologist, orientalist, historian and philosopher, Ernest Renan (1823-1892) held the chair in Hebrew, Chaldean and Syriac languages at the Collège de France (1862-1892), and was its …

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May 7, 2024 · "Ernest Renan" (1905) by William Francis Barry (external scan) " Renan, Ernest," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)