Constantin (von) Tischendorf

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf (January 18, 1815 – December 7, 1874) was a world-leading biblical scholar in his time.

He discovers the world's oldest and most complete Bible dating from the fourth century, 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 discovers it.

The codex can be seen either in the British Library in London, or as a digitized version on the Internet.

Textual disputes are resolved when the two oldest books, Codex Sinaiticus (source aleph, 4th century) and Codex Vaticanus (source beta, 4th century), agree with each other.

Tischendorf is made an Honorary Doctor by Oxford University on March 16, 1865, and an Honorary Doctor by Cambridge University on March 9, 1865 following this find of the century.

While a student gaining his academic degree in the 1840s, he had earned international recognition when he deciphered the Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, a fifth-century Greek manuscript of the New Testament.

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