Paul de Lagarde

Paul De Lagarde

Paul Anton de Lagarde (2 November 1827 - 22 December 1891) was a German polymath, biblical scholar and orientalist. He has been cited as one of the greatest orientalists of the 19th century. The bitterness of his extreme antisemitism appeared in his writing.

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