Carl Clemen

Carl Christian Clemen (30 March 1865, near Leipzig – 8 July 1940, Bonn), best known as Carl Clemen, was a German theologian and religious historian.

[1] He was a member of the history of religions school.

Clemen was Professor of New Testament and religious history at the University of Bonn.

[2] He was a critic of the Christ myth theory and refuted the arguments of Arthur Drews, Peter Jensen and other mythicists.

[4] Clemen has approximately six hundred publications.