# Ernest Renan — Beyond Good and Evil character guide

> Ernest Renan in Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Ernest Renan

**First appearance:** 0048-iii-the-religious-mood

## Who they are

French scholar of religion referenced in critiques of modern ideas.

## In the story

### [Chapter 48](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/beyond_good_and_evil_se/chapters/48)

His refined, religiously-thrilled language and view that religion is a product of 'normal man' is quoted and presented as the absolute antipode to the harder, more German sensibility.

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