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Ernest Renan
Ernest Renan was a French scholar of Semitic languages, historian of religion and essayist. In 1860–1861 he led a French archaeological mission to Lebanon that explored Byblos, Tyre and Sidon, published as Mission de Phénicie. His Life of Jesus of 1863 caused a sensation by treating Jesus as a historical man, and his lecture What Is a Nation? of 1882 remains a classic text on nationhood.
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