Constantin von Tischendorf, German theologian, scholar, and academic (born 1815)

Constantin von Tischendorf

German theologian and biblical scholar (1815–1874)

Lobegott Friedrich Constantin (von) Tischendorf 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.