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Andrzej Niemojewski
Andrzej Niemojewski (24 January 1864 – 3 November 1921) was a Polish social and political activist, poet, rationalist and writer of the Young Poland period. God Jesus Niemojewski was best known as a proponent of the Christ myth theory. He was the author of ''Gott Jesus im Lichte fremder und eigener Forschungen samt Darstellung der evangelischen Astralstoffe, Astralszenen und Astralsysteme'' (1910). The book was translated in 1996 as ''God Jesus: The Sun, Moon and Stars as Background to the Gospel Stories'' (1910). Albert Schweitzer added two new chapters in the 1913 second edition of his '' Quest of the Historical Jesus''. (''Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung'', 2. Auflage, 1913) which features ''God Jesus'' in one chapter. *Ch. 22, (p. 451–499), "The New Denial of the Historicity of Jesus" (''Die Neueste Bestreitung der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu'') analyzes Drews's thesis, plus eight writers in support of Arthur Drews's thesis about the non-existence of Jesus: J. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw, officially the Capital City of Warsaw, is the capital and List of cities and towns in Poland, largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the Vistula, River Vistula in east-central Poland. Its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a Warsaw metropolitan area, greater metropolitan area of 3.27 million residents, which makes Warsaw the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, 6th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises List of districts and neighbourhoods of Warsaw, 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is classified as an Globalization and World Cities Research Network#Alpha 2, alpha global city, a major political, economic and cultural hub, and the country's seat of government. It is also the capital of the Masovian Voivodeship. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Whittaker (metaphysician)
Thomas Whittaker (25 September 1856 – 3 October 1935) was an English metaphysician and critic. Biography Whittaker was educated at Dublin Royal College of Science and Exeter College, Oxford. He was an editor of the journal ''Mind'' (1885-1891). He won a Natural Science scholarship at Exeter College. From 1910 he was director of the Rationalist Press Association. Whittaker was an advocate of the Christ myth theory. He was influenced by the writings of Willem Christiaan van Manen and J. M. Robertson.Johnston, G. A. (1916)''Reviewed Work: The Origins of Christianity, with an Outline of Van Manen's Analysis of the Pauline Literature by Van Manen, Thomas Whittaker'' ''International Journal of Ethics'' 26 (3): 428-429. Works * ''The Philosophy of History'' (1893) * ''The Neoplatonists: A Study in the History of Hellenism'' (1901), third impression 1928 ''Origins of Christianity''(1904), fourth edition 1933 ''Apollonius of Tyana and Other Essays''(1906) ''The Liberal State''(1907) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1921 Deaths
Events January * January 2 ** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil. ** The Spanish liner ''Santa Isabel'' breaks in two and sinks off Villa Garcia, Mexico, with the loss of 244 of the 300 people on board. * January 16 – The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa. * January 17 – The first recorded public performance of the illusion of "sawing a woman in half" is given by English stage magician P. T. Selbit at the Finsbury Park Empire variety theatre in London. * January 20 – British K-class submarine HMS K5, HMS ''K5'' sinks in the English Channel; all 57 on board are lost. * January 21 – The full-length Silent film, silent comedy drama film ''The Kid (1921 film), The Kid'', written, produced, directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin (in his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1864 Births
Events January * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "Beautiful Dreamer" is published in March. * January 16 – Denmark rejects an Austrian-Prussian ultimatum to repeal the Danish Constitution, which says that Schleswig-Holstein is part of Denmark. * January 21 – New Zealand Wars: The Tauranga campaign begins. February * February – John Wisden publishes ''Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, The Cricketer's Almanack for the year 1864'' in England; it will go on to become the major annual cricket reference publication. * February 1 – Danish-Prussian War (Second Schleswig War): 57,000 Austrian and Prussian troops cross the Eider River into Denmark. * February 15 – Heineken N.V., Heineken Brewery is founded in the Netherlands. *American Civil War: ** February 17 – The tiny Confed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Christ Myth
''The Christ Myth'', first published in 1909, was a book by Arthur Drews on the Christ myth theory. Drews (1865–1935), along with Bruno Bauer (1809–1882) and Albert Kalthoff (1850–1906), is one of the three German pioneers of the denial of the existence of a Historicity of Jesus, historical Jesus. History 19th-century historical criticism Drews emphatically argues that no independent evidence for the historical existence of Jesus has ever been found outside the New Testament writings. He denounces the Romanticism of the liberal cult of Jesus (''Der liberale Jesuskultus'') as a violation of historical method, and the naive Moral sense theory, sentimentalism of historical theology which attributes the formation of Christianity to Jesus's "great personality". He mentions the key names of historical criticism that emerged in the late 18th century and blossomed in the 19th century in Germany: * Charles-François Dupuis (1742–1809) and Constantin-François Chassebœuf, Comte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astral Mythology
The worship of heavenly bodies is the veneration of stars (individually or together as the night sky), the planets, or other astronomical objects as deities, or the association of deities with heavenly bodies. In anthropological literature these systems of practice may be referred to as astral cults. The most notable instances of this are Sun gods and Moon gods in polytheistic systems worldwide. Also notable are the associations of the planets with deities in Sumerian religion, and hence in Babylonian and Greco-Roman religion, viz. Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Gods, goddesses, and demons may also be considered personifications of astronomical phenomena such as lunar eclipses, planetary alignments, and apparent interactions of planetary bodies with stars. The Sabians of Harran, a poorly understood pagan religion that existed in Harran during the early Islamic period (7th–10th century), were known for their astral cult. The related term astrolatry usually imp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Denial Of The Historicity Of Jesus In Past And Present
''Die Leugnung der Geschichtlichkeit Jesu in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart'' (English: ''The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present'') was a 1926 book in German by Arthur Drews on Christ myth theory. The book is a historical review of some 35 major deniers of Jesus historicity (radicals, mythicists) covering the period 1780 – 1926, and was meant to be Drews’s response to Albert Schweitzer's ''Quest of the Historical Jesus'' of 1906. Drews’s book was in fact presented in the guise of ''"Quest of the non-Historicity of Jesus"'', with its own historical review of the key Jesus deniers. As Schweitzer erected himself as the champion of "historicists", Drews stood up in opposition as the champion of "radicals" and "Jesus historicity deniers". They were later labelled "mythicists" by the media, a name never used by Drews, but popularized in the early 1940s by the British writers A.D. Howell Smith, in his book ''Jesus Not A Myth'' (1942) and Archibald Robertson (athei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Lublinski
Samuel Lublinski (18 February 1868 – 26 December 1910) was a Berlin-based writer, literary historian, critic, and philosopher of religion. He was a pioneer of the socio-historical study of literary movements and a major contributor to the debates about German-Jewish national and cultural identity of the era. Life Lublinski was born in Johannisburg, East Prussia (now Pisz, Poland). He came from a secular German Jewish family, and was the son of a businessman. He studied at several schools in Königsberg, but was repeatedly forced to leave because of his argumentative character. In 1887, he moved to Verona to work for the bookseller Leo Olschki. Lublinski later moved to Venice. In 1892 he returned to Germany and set up independently as a bookseller in Heidelberg, but in 1895 finally abandoned his profession to become a full-time writer. From 1895 he moved to Berlin, becoming a journalist and essayist on numerous topics. His first book was ''Jewish characters in Grillparzer, He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Bolland
Gerardus Johannes Petrus Josephus Bolland (9 June 1854, Groningen (city), Groningen – 11 February 1922, Leiden), also known as G.J.P.J. Bolland, was a Dutch Autodidacticism, autodidact, linguist, philosopher, biblical scholar, and lecturer. An excellent orator, he gave extremely well attended public lectures in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Delft, Groningen, Nijmegen and Belgium. He became an expert in German idealism, being especially interested in the works of Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Eduard von Hartmann and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. He began researching the Early Christianity, formation of Christianity in 1891, and was extremely literate in religious history. He was associated with the Radical Criticism, Dutch radical school. He effected a revival in Hegelianism in the Netherlands around 1900 by arranging a new edition of Hegel’s works, and stimulating a renewal of interest in philosophy in the Netherlands. He had a quirky style in his use of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Benjamin Smith
William Benjamin Smith (October 26, 1850 – August 6, 1934) was a professor of mathematics at Tulane University, best known as a proponent of the Christ myth theory. Biography In a series of books, beginning with ''Ecce Deus: The Pre-Christian Jesus'', published in 1894, and ending with ''The Birth of the Gospel'', published posthumously in 1954, Smith argued that the earliest Christian sources, particularly the Pauline epistles, stress Christ's divinity at the expense of any human personality, and that this would have been implausible, if there had been a human Jesus. Smith therefore argued that Christianity's origins lay in a pre-Christian Jesus cult—that is, a Jewish sect had worshipped a divine being Jesus in the centuries before the human Jesus was supposedly born. Evidence for this cult was found in Hippolytus' mention of the Naassenes and Epiphanius' report of a Nasarene sect that existed before Christ, as well as passages in ''Acts''. The seemingly historical details ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral tradition, oral or literature, written), or they may also performance, perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History Ancient poets The civilization of Sumer figures prominently in the history of early poetry, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jensen (Orientalist)
Peter Jensen may refer to: Sports * Peter Jensen (psychologist) (born 1946), Canadian Olympic trainer and sports psychologist * Peter Aagaard Jensen (born 1956), Danish sport shooter * Peter Skov-Jensen (born 1971), Danish football player * Peter Friis Jensen (born 1988), Danish professional football goalkeeper * Peter Vindahl Jensen (born 1998), Danish footballer Other * Peter Jensen (orientalist) (1861–1936), professor and German orientalist * Peter L. Jensen (1886–1961), inventor of the first loudspeaker * Peter Herbert Jensen (1913–1955), German physicist * Kris Jensen (Peter Kristian Jensen, 1942), American pop musician * Peter Jensen (bishop) (born 1943), Anglican Archbishop of Sydney, Australia * Peter Aalbæk Jensen (born 1956), Danish film producer * Peter Jensen (fashion designer) (born 1969), fashion designer * Peter Boysen Jensen (1883–1959), Danish plant physiologist See also *Peder Jensen (other) {{hndis, Jensen, Peter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
