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Tischendorf

American  
[tish-uhn-dawrf] / ˈtɪʃ ənˌdɔrf /

noun

  1. Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von 1815–74, German Biblical critic.


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A Cevian partner, Jens Tischendorf, has been nominated for election to the board in January.

From New York Times Nov. 19, 2014

Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St. Catherine.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Tischendorf "borrowed" the book from the monks, on the plea that his health required him to work in the warmer climate of Cairo.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scholar Tischendorf recognized the vellum leaves as fragments of an ancient Greek biblical text.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1863 Dr. Tischendorf published, at the cost of the Russian Emperor, a splendid but very costly edition of his Sinaitic MS in columns, with a Latin introduction.

From Theological Essays by Bradlaugh, Charles

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