Bernhard Weiss
Bernhard Weiss was a German Protestant New Testament scholar. He was the father of Johannes Weiss and the painter, Hedwig Weiss.Biography
Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at the University of Königsberg, Halle and Berlin, he became professor extraordinarius at Königsberg in 1852, and afterwards professor ordinarius at Kiel and Berlin. In 1880 he was made superior consistorial councillor of the Evangelical State Church of Prussia's older Provinces.An opponent of the Tübingen School, he published a number of important works, which became well known to students in Great Britain and America. He was also the reviser of commentaries on the New Testament in the series of H.A.W. Meyer: he wrote the commentaries on Matthew, Mark and Luke, John, Romans, the Epistles to Timothy and Titus, Hebrews, and the Epistles of John.
Weiss also established a new text of the Greek New Testament, which was utilized by Eberhard Nestle for his Novum Testamentum Graece.
His other works include:
- Lehrbuch der biblischen Theologie des Neuen Testaments
- Des Leben Jesu
- Lehrbuch der Einleitung in des Neue Testament
- Das Neue Testament: Berichtigter Text
- Die Quellen des Lukasevangeliums
