Joseph-Ernest Renan
1823–92
French philologist. Assistant, department of manuscripts, Bibliothèque Nationale, 1851. Member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, 1856. Professor of Hebrew and Chaldaic languages, Collège de France, 1862–4. Lost the professorship following publication of his highly controversial Vie de Jésus in 1863; reinstated, 1870. Member of the Académie Française, 1878.
Sources
Dictionnaire universel des contemporains
EB.
Bibliography
Dictionnaire universel des contemporains: Dictionnaire universel des contemporains contenant toutes les personnes notables de la France et des pays étrangers … Ouvrage rédigé et continuellement tenu à jour avec le concours d’écrivains et des savants de tous les pays. Edited by Louis Gustave Vapereau. Paris: Libraire Hachette. 1858. 3d edition, 1865. 4th edition, 1870. 5th edition, 1880. 6th edition, 1893.
EB: The Encyclopædia Britannica. A dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information. 11th edition. 29 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910–11.
