Constantin von Tischendorf

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (January 18, 1815 at Langenfeld, Saxony near Plauen – December 7, 1874 in Leipzig) was a noted German Biblical scholar, the son of a physician. He recovered the Codex Sinaiticus, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament, in 1859.

Reference

• Black, Matthew, and Robert Davidson, Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament Glasgow: University of Glasgow Press, 1981.

See, in addition to the handbooks on New Testament criticism, Carl Bertheau's article on Tischendorf in Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopädie (3rd ed., 1907).

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