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• Die griechisch-römische Biographie nach ihrer litterarischen Form (B.G. Teubner, 1901), by Friedrich Leo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Greek Poets' Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2013), by Maarit Kivilo (JSTOR ebook)

• Melanchthons psychologie, seine schrift de anima in ihrer abhängigkeit von Aristoteles und Galenos ... (Verlag von E. Marquardsen, 1897), by Johann Rump (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indigenous Biography and Autobiography (Canberra: ANU Press, 2008), ed. by Peter Read, Frances Peters-Little, and Anna Haebich (JSTOR ebook)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Relative Histories: Mediating History in Asian American Family Memoirs (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2022), by Rocio G. Davis (JSTOR ebook)

• The ADB’s Story (Canberra: ANU Press, 2013), ed. by Christine Fernon and Melanie Nolan (JSTOR ebook)

• Interpreting the Self: Autobiography in the Arabic Literary Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001), ed. by Dwight Fletcher Reynolds (HTML at UC Press)

• Rousseau's Occasional Autobiographies (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1992), by Susan K. Jackson (PDF at Ohio State)

• Zu der am 22. Maerz 1863 Vormittags 11 1/2 Uhr im Festsaale der Ritter-Akademie stattfindenden Feier des Allerhöchsten Geburtstages Seiner Majestät des Königs ladet ehrerbietig und ergebenst ein der Director Dr. Ernst Köpke, Professor. (A. Müller, 1863), by Ernst Rudolf Anastasius Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)
• De hypomnematis Graecis (Typis Nauckianis, 1842), by Ernst Rudolf Anastasius Köpke (page images at HathiTrust)

• George Moore and the Autogenous Self: The Autobiography and Fiction (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1994), by Elizabeth Grubgeld (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
• New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde" (London: Fortune Press, c1925), by Frank Harris and Alfred Bruce Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Novai͡a kulʹturnai͡a sila : russkie pisateli XIX-go vi͡eka (Izd. zhurnala "Mir Bozhiĭ", 1901), by Iv Ivanov (page images at HathiTrust)

• "True Biographies of Nations?" The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography (Acton, ACT: ANU Press, 2019), ed. by Karen Fox (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)

• Genkō shakusho wage (Nishimura Hōzōkan, 1894), by Ekū and Kokan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Genkō shakusho wage (Nishimura Hōzōkan, 1894), by Ekū and Kokan (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, c2023), ed. by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, Cong Zhang, and Ping Yao (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Chinese Autobiographical Writing: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023), ed. by Cong Ellen Zhang, Ping Yao, and Patricia Buckley Ebrey (JSTOR ebook)

• Les martyrologes historiques du moyen age : étude sur la formation du martyrologe romain (Librairie Victor Lecoffre :, 1908), by Henri Quentin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die heiligen der Merowinger (J.C.B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1900), by Carl Albrecht Bernoulli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Asceticism and Society in Crisis: John of Ephesus and The Lives of the Eastern Saints (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Susan Ashbrook Harvey (HTML at UC Press)

• Izsli͡edovanīe V.O. Kli͡uchevskago "Drevnerusskīi͡a zhitīi͡a svi͡atykh kak istoricheskīĭ istochnik" (Izd. Imp. Obshchestva istorīi i drevnosteĭ rosīĭskikh pri Moskovskom universiteti͡e, 1913), by S. I. Smirnov (page images at HathiTrust)

• Drevnerusskī︠i︡a zhitī︠i︡a sv︠i︡atykhʺ kakʺ istoricheskīĭ istochnikʺ (Izd. K. Soldatenkova, 1871), by V. O. Kli͡uchevskiĭ and André Savine Collection (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Di cinque valenti incisori mantovani del secolo XVI e delle stampe da loro operate : memoria (F. Elmucci, 1840), by Carlo D'Arco (page images at HathiTrust)

• Designs of Blackness: Mappings in the Literature and Culture of Afro-America (25th anniversary edition; New York et al.: P. Lang, 2020), by A. Robert Lee
  • PDF and Epub with commentary at peterlang.com
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN

• Early Greek Poets' Lives: The Shaping of the Tradition (Leiden: Brill, 2013), by Maarit Kivilo (JSTOR ebook)

• Symeon the Holy Fool: Leontius's Life and the Late Antique City (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), by Derek Krueger and Leontius of Neapolis (HTML at UC Press)

• Italian Signs, American Streets: The Evolution of Italian American Narrative (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1996), by Fred L. Gardaphé (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Quest of the Historical Jesus: A Critical Study of its Progress from Reimarus to Wrede, by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by W. Montgomery (HTML at earlychristianwritings.com)
• The Fair Haven: A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in Our Lord's Ministry Upon Earth, Both as Against Rationalistic Impugners and Certain Orthodox Defenders (London: A. C. Fifield, 1913), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by R. A. Streatfeild (Gutenberg text)
• La vie de Jésus et son nouvel historien. (L. Hachette et cie, 1864), by H. Wallon (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Renan réfuté par les rationalistes allemands (C. Douniol [etc.], 1863), by Guillaume René Meignan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mythical interpretation of the Gospels; critical studies in the historic narratives. (Scribner, 1916), by Thomas James Thorburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus in the nineteenth century and after (T. & T. Clark, 1914), by Heinrich Weinel and Alban Gregory Widgery (page images at HathiTrust)
• Records of Jesus reviewed, and fifty questions answered through five hundred reverent reasoners. (The Union company, 1883), by Benjamin Franklin Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strauss and Renan. An essay. (Trübner & co., 1866), by Eduard Zeller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte Jesu. Nach akademischen Vorlesungen. (Breitkopf und Härtel, 1876), by Karl August von Hase (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jésus-Christ; réponse à m. Renan (H. Plon, 1864), by A. Gratry (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical Christ; or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith (Watts & Co., 1914), by F. C. Conybeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die hauptprobleme der leben-Jesu-forsc ung (J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1906), by Otto Moritz Schmiedel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jesus im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (J. C. B. Mohr, 1903), by Heinrich Weinel (page images at HathiTrust)
• What is the truth about Jesus Christ? : problems of Christology discussed in six Haskell lectures at Oberlin, Ohio (Scribner's, 1913), by Friedrich Loofs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen critique de la Vie de Jésus de M. Renan (A. Bray, 1863), by Charles Emile Freppel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fair haven : a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders (Trübner, 1873), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• La stratégie de M. Renan (Libraire Saint-Joseph, 1874), by Olympe Philippe Gerbet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fair haven: a work in defence of the miraculous element in Our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders (M. Kennerley, 1914), by Samuel Butler and R. A. Streatfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fair haven : a work in defence of the miraculous element in our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders (Tru̲bner, 1873), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel and its witnesses : some of the chief facts in the life of our Lord, and the authority of the evangelical narratives considered in lectures chiefly preached at St. James, Westminster (E.P. Dutton, 1883), by Henry Wace (page images at HathiTrust)
• German anti-supernaturalism. Six lectures on Strauss's " Life of Jesus;" delivered at the chapel in South place, Finsbury. (C. Fox [etc], 1841), by Philip Harwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• The birth and infancy of Jesus Christ; according to the Gospel narratives. (Cassells, 1907), by Louis Matthews Sweet and James Stevenson Riggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen critique des doctrines de Gibbon, du Dr Strauss et de M. Salvador sur Jésus-Christ, son évangile et son église (Charles Gosselin, 1841), by M.-N.-S. Guillon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Christ in recent research (Clarendon Press, 1907), by W. Sanday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Hauptprobleme der Leben Jesu Forschung (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1902), by Otto Schmiedel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben-Jesu-Werk. (Raber & cie., 1922), by Albert Meyenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der leben-Jesu-forschung. (J. C. B. Mohr (P. Siebeck), 1913), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Geschichte der Geburt des Herrn und seiner ersten Schritte im Leben : in Bezug auf die neueste Kritik (Wiegandt und Grieben, 1873), by F. L. Steinmeyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der sogenannte historische Jesus und der geschichtliche, biblische Christus (A. Deichert, 1892), by Martin Kähler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The modern representations of the life of Jesus : four discourses delivered before the Evangelical Union at Hanover, Germany (Little, Brown, 1868), by Gerhard Uhlhorn and Charles E. Grinnell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The historical Christ; or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith (The Open court publishing company, 1914), by F. C. Conybeare (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of Christ in recent research (Oxford University Press, American Branch, 1907), by W. Sanday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die logia Jesu; eine Literarkritische und Literar-geschichtliche Untersuchung zum synoptischen Problem. (Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1916), by Thaddaeus Soiron (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fair haven; a work in defence of the miraculous element in Our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders (Longman's Green, 1890), by Samuel Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Literarische Charakterköpfe. (F. A. Brockhaus, 1870), by Rudolf von Gottschall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ensaios de historia e critica. ([Imprensa nacional], 1916), by Arthur Guimarães de Araujo Jorge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorläufig zu beherzigendes bei würdigung der Frage über die historische oder mythische Grundlage des Lebens Jesu : wie die canonischen evangelien dieses darstellen, vorgehalten aus dem bewusstseyn eines glaubigen, der den supranaturalisten beigezählt wird zur Beruhigung der gemüther (Ludwig Friedrich Fues, 1835), by J. C. F. Steudel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Streitschriften zur Vertheidigung meiner Schrift über das Leben Jesu und zur Charakteristik der gegenwärtigen Theologie (C.F. Osiander, 1838), by David Friedrich Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christ and his critics : studies in the person and problems of Jesus (Fleming H. Revell, 1910), by F. R. Montgomery Hitchcock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Christus des Glaubens und der Jesus der Geschichte : eine Kritik des Schleiermacher'schen Lebens Jesu (Franz Duncker, 1865), by David Friedrich Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het Leven van Jezuz door Ernest Renan : toespraak bij de opening der akademische lessen, September 1863 (P. Engels, 1863), by Johannes Henricus Scholten and Ernest Renan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remarks on Renan's Life of Jesus ([s.n.], 1865), by William Henry Furness (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christ of history; an argument grounded in the facts of His life on earth. (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), by John Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des Rabbi Jeschua ben Jossef hanootzri, gennant Jesus Christus. (E.M. Heilbutt, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Jésus de M. Renan (Grassart, 1863), by Napoléon Roussel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Acht apologetische Vorträge über die Person Jesu Christi : mit Rücksicht auf die neuesten Schriften von Strauss, Renan, Schenkel, nebst einem Vorwort von Dr. Moll (Gräfe und Unzer, 1866), by Julius Schiekopp (page images at HathiTrust)
• The fair haven; a work in defence of the miraculous element in Our Lord's ministry upon earth, both as against rationalistic impugners and certain orthodox defenders (Trb̈ner, 1873), by Samuel Butler and R. A. Streatfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mythical interpretation of the Gospels : critical studies in the historic narratives (T. & T. Clark, 1916), by Thomas James Thorburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'évangile selon Renan (V. Palmé, 1863), by Henri Lasserre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Examen critique de la vie de Jésus de Joseph Ernest Renan (Victor Palmé, 1866), by Charles Freppel and Ernest Havet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gutachten über das leben Jesu (Fr. Wagner, 1840), by J. Leonhard Hug and David Friedrich Strauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The days of His flesh the earthly life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (Hodder & Stoughton, 1906), by David Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toward the understanding of Jesus, and other historical studies (Macmillan, 1921), by Vladimir G. Simkhovitch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kanonischen Synoptiker in Uebersicht mit Randglossen und Register und Das Geschichtliche vom Leben Jesu (C. Schmidt, 1876), by Gustav Volkmar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gospel and its witnesses; some of the chief facts in the life of our Lord, and the authority of the evangelical narratives (John Murray, 1883), by Henry Wace (page images at HathiTrust)
• The life of lives, being the records of Jesus reviewed by a throng of recent Biblical scholars, teachers, and thinkers. (Cleaves, Macdonald & co., 1885), by Benjamin F. Burnham and Celeste Shute Burnham (page images at HathiTrust)
• La "Vita di Gesù" di Ernesto Renan in Italia : studio storico- critico (Ermanno Loescher & Co., 1900), by Baldassare Labanca and Ernest Renan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Evangelium Jesu und das Evangelium von Jesus (nach den Synoptikern) : ein Beitrag zur Lösung der Frage in drei Vorlesungen (C. Bertelsmann, 1906), by Erich Schaeder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Reimarus zu Wrede : eine Geschichte der Leben-Jesu-Forschung (J.C.B. Mohr (Paul Siebeck), 1906), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Irrgang des Lebens Jesu. (J.H.W. Dietz, 1884), by Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben Jesu : nach den Berichten der evangelisten Gerechtfertigt und Vertheidigt gegen die Angriffe des Dr. Strauss und des unglaubens (Balmer u. Riehm, 1865), by Immanuel Tafel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The quest of the historical Jesus, a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede. (Macmillan, 1910), by Albert Schweitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jésus messie et fils de Dieu d'après les évangiles synoptiques avec une introduction sur l'origine et la valeur historique de ces trois premiers évangiles (Letouzey et Ané, 1905), by M. Lepin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voices of the church, in reply to Dr. D. F. Strauss ... comprising essays in defence of Christianity (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. [etc.];, 1845), by J. R. Beard, August Neander, Johann Friedrich Wurm, Julius Müller, August Tholuck, Athanase Coquerel, and Edgar Quinet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Leben Jesu in seinen neueren Darstellungen : funf Vorträge (Stuttgart : D. Gundert, 1892., 1892), by Gerhard Uhlhorn (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Historical Christ;: Or, An investigation of the views of Mr. J. M. Robertson, Dr. A. Drews, and Prof. W. B. Smith, by F. C. Conybeare (Gutenberg ebook)
• The quest of the historical Jesus : a critical study of its progress from Reimarus to Wrede, by Albert Schweitzer, trans. by W. Montgomery (Gutenberg ebook)

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