PHILOSOPHER

Constantin von Tischendorf

1815 - 1874

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Constantin von Tischendorf has received more than 193,819 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Constantin von Tischendorf is the 612th most popular philosopher (down from 592nd in 2019), the 1,745th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,724th in 2019) and the 80th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Constantin von Tischendorf ranks 612 out of 1,267. Before him are Thomas Reid, Crates of Mallus, Al-Taftazani, Jean Hyppolite, Antonio Rosmini, and Roman Ingarden. After him are R. G. Collingwood, Hermann Samuel Reimarus, Berengar of Tours, Reinhold Niebuhr, Kuno Fischer, and Marpa Lotsawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1815, Constantin von Tischendorf ranks 20. Before him are Josip Juraj Strossmayer, Lorenz von Stein, Ernest Meissonier, Giuseppina Strepponi, Pierre Napoléon Bonaparte, and Andreas Achenbach. After him are Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Princess Elisabeth of Prussia, Anthony Trollope, Eugène Marin Labiche, and Andrew Graham. Among people deceased in 1874, Constantin von Tischendorf ranks 16. Before him are Marià Fortuny, Maria Teresa, Princess of Beira, Johann Friedrich Franz Burgmüller, Charles Gleyre, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, and Moritz von Jacobi. After him are Cochise, Hans Christian Lumbye, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Peter Cornelius, Howard Staunton, and Ilija Garašanin.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Constantin von Tischendorf ranks 1,745 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Bülow (1755), Adolf Hurwitz (1859), Christian Oliver (1972), Christian Morgenstern (1871), Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen (1893), and Klaus Fischer (1949). After him are Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (1825), Uziel Gal (1923), Manfred von Ardenne (1907), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Friedrich von Flotow (1812), and Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of Brabant (1224).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Constantin von Tischendorf ranks 80. Before him are Andreas Karlstadt (1486), Johann Bernhard Basedow (1723), Ludwig Büchner (1824), Conrad Celtes (1459), Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781), and Hans Albert (1921). After him are Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694), Werner Jaeger (1888), Theodor Lipps (1851), Philipp Mainländer (1841), Ernst Nolte (1923), and Eugen Fink (1905).

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