Oskar Leopold von Gebhardt

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Oskar Leopold von Gebhardt (1844-1906) was a German Lutheran theologian, born at Wesenberg (Rakvere), Estonia. In 1893 he became chief librarian and professor of paleography in the University of Leipzig. He published Theile's Novum Testamentum Grœce (1875-1900) and Das Neue Testament griesch und deutsch (fourth edition, 1896); edited The Miniatures of the Ashburnham Pentateuch (1883); with Harnack, Texte und Untersuchungen zur Gerschichte der altchristlichen Litteratur (1882-1905), a serial devoted to New Testament and patristic criticism; and, with Harnack and Zahn, an edition of the apostolic fathers (1875-78).

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