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Kurt Aland

1915 - 1994

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Kurt Aland (28 March 1915 – 13 April 1994) was a German theologian and biblical scholar who specialized in New Testament textual criticism. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung (Institute for New Testament Textual Research) in Münster and served as its first director from 1959 to 1983. He was one of the principal editors of Nestle–Aland – Novum Testamentum Graece for the Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft and The Greek New Testament for the United Bible Societies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kurt Aland is the 353rd most popular historian (down from 296th in 2019), the 4,096th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,581st in 2019) and the 43rd most popular German Historian.

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Among historians, Kurt Aland ranks 353 out of 561. Before him are Richard N. Frye, Ernest Fenollosa, Serhii Plokhy, Arno Peters, Jérôme Carcopino, and Nicholas Adontz. After him are Milan Šufflay, Fernão Lopes, Hafiz-i Abru, Dino Compagni, J. B. Bury, and Edward Granville Browne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Kurt Aland ranks 166. Before him are Knut Nystedt, Tomás Fernández, Boris Paichadze, Wolfgang Schneiderhan, Alykul Osmonov, and Leigh Brackett. After him are Ken Aston, Joseph Arthur Ankrah, Elio Toaff, Raquel Rastenni, M. F. Husain, and Helmut Wick. Among people deceased in 1994, Kurt Aland ranks 203. Before him are Nicky Hopkins, Ralph Ellison, Masayoshi Ito, Karl-Heinz Metzner, Charles Drake, and Paul Xuereb. After him are Erich Buschenhagen, Ștefan Dobay, Norman Read, Arnold Badjou, Cameron Mitchell, and Robert Rozhdestvensky.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 4,098 out of 7,253. Before him are Heymann Steinthal (1823), Michael Stich (1968), David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628), Johann Schreck (1576), Herbert Norkus (1916), and Herluf Bidstrup (1912). After him are Inge Borkh (1921), Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse (1774), Friedrich Tietjen (1834), Hans-Jürgen Syberberg (1935), Helmuth Rilling (1933), and John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1621).

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Among HISTORIANS In Germany

Among historians born in Germany, Kurt Aland ranks 43. Before him are Ludwig von Pastor (1854), Walter Burkert (1931), Max Jakob Friedländer (1867), Georg Gottfried Gervinus (1805), Johann Gottfried Eichhorn (1752), and Arno Peters (1916). After him are Franz Babinger (1891), Heinrich Zimmer (1890), Gottfried Arnold (1665), Heinrich von Sybel (1817), Peter Gay (1923), and Heinrich Gelzer (1847).

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