Ernest Renan
French philosopher and writer (1823–1892)
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A French philologist whose 19th-century writings on early Christianity reached wide audiences, and whose theories on race and Jewish ancestry fed ideologies that outlasted him.
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Joseph Ernest Renan was born 27 February 1823 in France and trained as an Orientalist, building a reputation in Semitic languages, biblical scholarship, and the history of religion. His works on the origins of Christianity found popular readership, but he also advanced political theories asserting white superiority and proposed the Khazar theory — claiming Ashkenazi Jews descended from Turkic Khazars and calling Jews "an incomplete race." Between 1864 and 1874 he led an archaeological mission to Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, tracing the ancient Phoenicians. He died 2 October 1892, leaving sch…
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