Eberhard Nestle

Eberhard Nestle (1 May 1851, Stuttgart – 9 March 1913, Stuttgart) was a German biblical scholar, textual critic, orientalist, editor of the Novum Testamentum Graece, and the father of Erwin Nestle.

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 Tübinger Stift from 1869 to 1874. 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.

Between 1898 and 1912 he worked as professor at the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren.

This edition was adopted by the British and Foreign Bible Society, replacing the Textus Receptus.

After the death of Eberhard Nestle his son Erwin Nestle (1883–1972) took over the publication and contributed substantially to a constant improvement of the editions. Since 1952 the edition occurred with the cooperation of Kurt Aland (21st edition). The theological standard work "Nestle-Aland" appeared from 1993 in the 27th edition.

Works Psalterium tetraglottum graece, syriace, chaldaice et latine (1879); Syrische grammatik mit litteratur, chrestomathie und glossar (1888); Veteris Testamenti graeci codices Vaticanus et Sinaiticus cum texto recepto collati, 1880, 2. Aufl. (1887); Marginalien und Materialen (1893) A Palestinian Syriac Lectionary containing lessons from the Pentateuch, Job, Proverbs, Prophets, Acts, and Epistles (1897); Vom Textus Receptus des griechischen neuen Testaments: Ein erweiterter Vortrag (1903) Einführung in das griechische Neue Testament, 3. Aufl. (Göttingen: 1909).