Ernest Renan
Joseph Ernest Renan (; ; 27 February 18232 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
superiority of White people over other human races. Renan is among the first scholars to advance the debunked
Khazar theory, which held that
Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the
Khazars, Turkic peoples who had
adopted the Jewish religion and allegedly migrated to central and eastern Europe following the collapse of their
khanate. On this basis he alleged that the Jews were "an incomplete race."
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