Joseph Ernest Renan

Joseph Earnest Renan (1823 - 1892), popularly known as Earnest Renan, was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar. He was an expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, biblical scholar, critic, historian of religion, philologist, and philosopher.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

- Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse

William Brightly Rands