CLEMEN, KARL. - Protestant, historian of religions, b. at Sommerfeld (Leipzig) in 1865, d. on 8 July 1940 at Bonn, where he was professor of his discipline.
Principal works: Religionsgeschichtliche Erklärung des Neuen Testaments (1909); Der Einfluss der Mysterienreligionen auf das älteste Christentum (1913), both anti-syncretist and anti-evolutionist with regard to the origins of Christianity; Fontes historiae religionum ex auctoribus graecis et latinis collecti (Berlin, from 1920); of these, 7 vols. have appeared to date, devoted to the religions: I Persian, II Egyptian, III Germanic, IV Finno-Ugric, V Celtic, VI primitive pre-Indo-European and Indo-European, VII Indian; of these C. edited I, III and VI; Religionsgeschichte Europas (2 vols., 1926, 1932); Die Religionen der Erde (Munich 1927), a collective collaboration (French trans. 1930); Urgeschichtliche Religion (2 vols., Bonn 1932); Die Religion der Etrusker (ibid. 1932); Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte (ibid. 1934).
Turchi, Nicola. “Clemen, karl.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, col. 1806. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949. https://azioneromana.com/article/clemen-karl.
MLA
Turchi, Nicola. “Clemen, karl.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. III, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1949, col. 1806. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/clemen-karl.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec3_clemen_karl,
author = {Turchi, Nicola},
title = {Clemen, karl},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {III},
pages = {1806},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1949},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/clemen-karl}
}
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