Karl Wessely (''Carl Wessely''; 27 June 1860,

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– 21 November 1931) was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar. He examined manuscripts housed at the

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(e.g. Papyrus 3,

Uncial 058 Uncial 058 (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 010 ( von Soden), is a Greek uncial manuscript of the New Testament, dated palaeographically to the 4th century. Description The codex contains a part of the Gospel of Matthew (18:18-19.22-23.2 ...

, 059, 0101, 0237) and in other important European libraries ( Papyrus 5).

Works

''Evangelien-Fragmente auf Papyrus''
Wiener Studien 4 (1882), 198-214. * ''Analekten. 1. Neue Evangelien-Fragmente auf Papyrus'' Wiener Studien 7 (1883).
''Prolegomena ad papyrorum graecorum novam collectionem edendam''
(Wien 1883)
''Bemerkungen zu einigen Publicationen auf dem Gebiete der älteren griechischen Paläographie''
(Wien 1892) * ''Papyrus Erzherzog Rainer. Führer durch die Ausstellung'', Wien 1894.
''Wie haben die alten Römer geschrieben?''
(Wien 1898)
''Les plus anciens monuments du christianisme''
Patrologia Orientalis IV, 2, (1907). * ''Ein fayumisch-griechisches Evangelien-fragment'', '' Wiener Studien'' 26 (Vienna, 1912), pp. 270–274.
''Griechische und koptische Texte theologischen inhalts''
''Studien zur Paläographie und Papyruskunde'', (Leipzig 1912
reprinted
(Amsterdam 1966)

References

Bibliography

* Hermann Harrauer. ''Carl Wessely (1860–1931)''. In: Mario Capasso. ''Hermae. Scholars and Scholarship in Papyrology''. Pisa 2007, pp. 71–75

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wessley, Karl 1860 births 1931 deaths 19th-century Austrian scholars Palaeographers Historians from Austria-Hungary Academics from Vienna