PHILOSOPHER

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 alleged superiority of White people over other human "races". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernest Renan has received more than 747,507 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Ernest Renan is the 175th most popular philosopher (up from 189th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from France (down from 391st in 2019) and the 18th 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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  • 73.97

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  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Ernest Renan ranks 175 out of 1,267. Before him are Cesare Beccaria, Athanasius Kircher, Al-Ash'ari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Claude Adrien Helvétius, and Xun Kuang. After him are Proclus, Karl Kautsky, Posidonius, Pierre Bayle, Paul Ricœur, and José Ortega y Gasset.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, Ernest Renan ranks 6. Before him are Abdulmejid I, Phineas Gage, Max Müller, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Gyula Andrássy. After him are Sándor Petőfi, Leopold Kronecker, Édouard Lalo, Alexandre Cabanel, Jean-Henri Fabre, and Li Hongzhang. Among people deceased in 1892, Ernest Renan ranks 5. Before him are Werner von Siemens, Walt Whitman, Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, and Bahá'u'lláh. After him are Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, Richard Owen, Édouard Lalo, Thomas Cook, Rudolf von Jhering, John Couch Adams, and Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia.

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In France

Among people born in France, Ernest Renan ranks 392 out of 6,770. Before him are Léo Delibes (1836), Louis IV of France (920), Fernandel (1903), Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715), Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908), and Jules Rimet (1873). After him are Paul Éluard (1895), James I of Aragon (1208), Gustave Moreau (1826), Dagobert I (611), Pierre Laval (1883), and Liliane Bettencourt (1922).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In France

Among philosophers born in France, Ernest Renan ranks 18. Before him are Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Simone Weil (1909), Charles Fourier (1772), Jean Buridan (1295), Jean Baudrillard (1929), and Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715). After him are Pierre Bayle (1647), Paul Ricœur (1913), Julien Offray de La Mettrie (1709), Marquis de Condorcet (1743), Nicolas Malebranche (1638), and Pierre Gassendi (1592).

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