Constantin von Tischendorf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German theologian
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Place of Birth: Lengenfeld, Saxony, Germany
About Constantin von Tischendorf
- Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (18 January 1815 – 7 December 1874) was a world-leading biblical scholar in his time.
- In 1844 he discovered the world's oldest and most complete Bible dating from 325, with the complete New Testament not discovered before.
- This Bible is called Codex Sinaiticus, after the St.
- Catherine's Monastery at Mt.
- Sinai, where Tischendorf discovered it.
- The codex can be seen either in the British Library in London, or as a digitalised version on the Internet.
- Textual disputes are resolved when the two oldest books, Codex Sinaiticus (source aleph, 4th AD) and Codex Vaticanus (source beta, 4th AD), agree with each other.
- Tischendorf was made an Honorary Doctor by Oxford University on 16 March 1865, and an Honorary Doctor by Cambridge University on 9 March 1865 following this find of the century.
- 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.
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