Alfred Schmidtke was a German New Testament scholar. As a collaborator of

Hermann von Soden Baron Hermann von Soden (16 August 1852 – 15 January 1914) was a German Biblical scholar, minister, professor of divinity, and textual theorist. Life Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on August 16, 1852, Soden was educated at the University of Tübinge ...

he worked on Greek uncial codices of the New Testament. Schmidtke travelled investigating the libraries of the monasteries of Albania and

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on von Soden's behalf. In 1903, after a "long stay" at

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he published a description of the monastic republic there. In 1907 he assisted in the publication of the Paris uncial, in 1911 his work on the manuscripts of the Jewish Christian Gospels was published. There is no further record of him after the outbreak of World War I

Works

* Das Klosterland des Athos, 1903Philogische Wochenschrift - Volume 24 1904- Page 626 "Auf Grund eines längeren Aufenthaltes gibt uns der Verf. eine Schilderung der eigentümlichen Mönchsrepublik auf dem Athos. Eingehende Studien verrät der erste Teil des geschmackvoll ausgestatteten Büchleins, in dem uns die verwickelten politischen, religiösen und sozialen Verhältnisse der kinowitischen und idiorrhythmischen Mönche, der Kellioten und Einsiedler geschildert werden." * Die Evangelien eines alten Unzialcodex nach einer Abschrift des Dreizehnten Jahrunderts, 1903 * Neue Fragmente und Untersuchungen zu den judenchristlichen Evangelien, Leipzig 1911

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