Carl Clemen

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Carl Clemen

Carl Christian Clemen (30 March 1865, near Leipzig – 8 July 1940, Bonn), best known as Carl Clemen, was a German theologian and religious historian.[1] He was a member of the history of religions school.

Career[]

Clemen was Professor of New Testament and religious history at the University of Bonn.[2] He was a critic of the Christ myth theory and refuted the arguments of Arthur Drews, Peter Jensen and other mythicists.[3] He was also critical of the ideas of Anthroposophy and Theosophy.[4]

Clemen has approximately six hundred publications.[5] His brothers were art historian Paul Clemen and historian Otto Clemen.

Selected publications[]

Books
Papers

References[]

  1. ^ Vollmer, U. (2001). Carl Clemen (1865-1940) als Emeritus. Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft. 9 (2): 185–204.
  2. ^ "Christian Carl Clemen". Retrieved 30 October 2017.
  3. ^ Anonymous. (1916). Primitive Christianity and Its Non-Jewish Sources by Carl Clemen. The Biblical World 48 (5): 309–310.
  4. ^ Clemen, Carl. (1924). Anthroposophy. The Journal of Religion 4 (3): 281–292.
  5. ^ Carl Clemen. Encyclopedia of Religion.
  6. ^ Case, Shirley Jackson. (1913). Review: The Johannine Studies of Clemen and B. Weiss. The American Journal of Theology 17 (2): 288–291.
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