Ioannis Psycharis
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Ioannis Psycharis was a Russian-born philologist who was much of his life a national of France. He was of Greek descent. He was also a writer and a promoter of Demotic Greek.
Woodcut portrait of Jean Psychari in the Ποικίλη Στοά magazine from 1888
Ernest Renan
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Joseph Ernest Renan was a French Orientalist and Semitic scholar, writing on Semitic languages and civilizations, historian of religion, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and critic. He wrot
Ioannis Psycharis
…was Jewish. Moreover, Psycharis supported his friend Emile Zola's publication of J'accuse…!, a public letter in defense of Dreyfus. In 1882, he married Ernest Renan's daughter, Noémie. They had four children, among which Ernest Psichari, Henriette Revault d'Allonnes and Corrie Siohan, raised in the Scheffer-Renan…
Ernest Renan, c. 1870s
Ernest Renan birthplace museum in Tréguier
Portrait of Joseph Ernest Renan, by F. Mulnier
Ernest Renan in his study by Anders Zorn