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-syncretistic and anti-evolutionist with regard to the origins of Christianity; Fontes historiae religionum ex auctoribus graecis et latinis collecti (Berlin, from 1920); to date 7 vols. have appeared, devoted to the religions: I Persian, II Egyptian, III Germanic, IV Slavic, V Celtic, VI primitive pre-Indo-European and Indo-European, VII Indian; C. edited I, III, and VI of these; 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 (there 1932); Altgermanische Religionsgeschichte (there 1934). Nicola Turchi