Death of M. Renan

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 46, 4 October 1892, Page 2

Death of M. Renan

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Paris, October 3. Joseph Erneste Renan, the great French philologist, died yesterday of con- , gestion of the lungs and weakness of the heart, after a few days' illness. London, October '6. The English press generally recognises , Kenan's death as the loss of one of the greatest writers and scholars of modern ! times. [Erneste Renan was born February . 27th, 1823, at Treguier, in Brittany. He was intended for the church, and studied iv the Seminary of Saint Sulpice, at Paris, which he left to devote himself to the study , of Oriental languages. Appointed iv 1860 10 a mission to Palestine and Syria, | which led him to investigations into i the origin of Christianity. On his return he was appointed Professor of , Oriental Languages in the College of France, but meeting with stormy mani festatioqs from the Catholic students, 1 discontinued his professional work. In 1863 he published his famous work ' The Life of Jesus,' which roused the active hostility of the clerical party, aud led to the deprivation of his professorship. In 1870 he again became Professor of 1 Oriental Languages in the College of France. I ■ ~~ — — i — — *~*™— ■