Karl Wessely
palaeographer
Karl Wessely (Carl Wessely; 27 June 1860, Vienna – 21 November 1931) was an Austrian palaeographer and papyrus scholar. He examined manuscripts housed at the Austrian National Library (e.g. Papyrus 3, Uncial 058, 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.
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