Eberhard nestle new testament

German scholar

Eberhard Nestle (1 May , Stuttgart – 9 March , Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, orientalist, editor of the Novum Testamentum Graece, and the father of Erwin Nestle.

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Life

Nestle was a son of the upper tribunal procurator (Obertribunalprokurator) Christian Gottlieb Nestle and his wife Sophie Beate Kleinmann. His half-brother from his father's second marriage was classical philologist Wilhelm Nestle.

Nestle studied at the University of Tübingen – the Tübinger Stift – from to His studies culminated in his doctoral thesis on the Hebrew and Greek text forms of the Book of Ezekiel. Afterwards he worked in the area of orientalism and wrote, among other things, a Syriac grammar.

During his later years, his focus changed to textual criticism of the New Testament.^[1]

Between and he worked as professor at the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.^[1]

In , he married Klara Kommerell (–87