Constantin von Tischendorf
German theologian and biblical scholar (1815–1874) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 1815 – 7 December 1874) was a German biblical scholar. In 1844, he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dated to around the mid-4th century and called Codex Sinaiticus after Saint Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai.
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Born | Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (1815-01-18)18 January 1815 |
Died | 7 December 1874(1874-12-07) (aged 59) |
Nationality | German |
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Discipline | theology |
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Tischendorf was made an honorary doctor by the University of Oxford on 16 March 1865, and by the University of Cambridge on 9 March 1865 following his discovery.[1] While a student gaining his academic degree in the 1840s, he earned international recognition when he deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a 5th-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament.