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Civic nationalism [1] Signature. Joseph Ernest Renan ( French: [ʒozɛf ɛʁnɛst ʁənɑ̃]; 27 February 1823 – 2 October 1892) [2] was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. [3] He wrote works on the origins of ...
Ernest Renan (born February 28, 1823, Tréguier, France—died October 2, 1892, Paris) was a French philosopher, historian, and scholar of religion, a leader of the school of critical philosophy in France.
Ernest Renan naît le 27 février 1823 à Tréguier dans une famille de pêcheurs ; son grand-père, ayant acquis une certaine aisance, y a acheté une maison où il s'est établi ; son père, capitaine d'un petit navire et républicain convaincu, a épousé la fille de commerçants royalistes de la ville voisine de Lannion.
- Henriette Renan
) is an 1882 lecture by French historian Ernest Renan (1823–1892) at the Sorbonne, known for the statements that a nation is "a daily plebiscite", and that nations are based as much on what people jointly forget as on what they remember.
Ernest Renan, (born Feb. 28, 1823, Tréguier, France—died Oct. 2, 1892, Paris), French philosopher, historian, and scholar of religion.
Ernest Renan (February 28, 1823 – October 12, 1892) was a Breton philosopher and writer, and a spokesman for the religious and intellectual changes which were sweeping Europe during the nineteenth century.
May 18, 2018 · Learn about Ernest Renan, a nineteenth-century scholar who applied positivist science to the study of Middle Eastern languages and religions. Find out his views on Jesus, Christianity, Islam, and the future of science.
