Otto Bardenhewer
German theologian and patrologist
About Otto Bardenhewer
Lived 1851 – 1935 (aged 84). Otto Bardenhewer was a German university teacher, catholic priest, exegete, patristic scholar and catholic theologian.
Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (Mönchengladbach, 16 March 1851 – Munich, 23 March 1935) was a German Catholic patrologist. His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008. For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.
Life He was born the son of a legal advisor and the grandson of a notary.
He was educated at the University of Bonn (Ph.D., 1873) and University of Würzburg. He became a Catholic priest in 1875. Polychronius, Bruder Theodors von Mopsuestia and Bischof von Apamea (1879) Patrologie (1894) Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur (5 vols., 1902 to 1932).
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Who was Otto Bardenhewer?
German theologian and patrologist (1851–1935)
When was Otto Bardenhewer born?
Otto Bardenhewer was born on 16 March 1851 in Mönchengladbach.
When did Otto Bardenhewer die?
Otto Bardenhewer died on 23 March 1935 in Munich.
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Otto Bardenhewer was a university teacher, catholic priest, exegete, patristic scholar and catholic theologian.
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Otto Bardenhewer was German.
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