Franz Anton Knittel

Franz Anton Knittel (April 3, 1721 – December 10, 1792) was a German, Lutheran orthodox theologian, priest, and palaeographer.

Knittel also deciphered and reconstructed the Gothic-Latin text of the palimpsest and published it in 1762 at Brunswick.

Tischendorf made a new and more accurate collation for the Latin text (edited in 1855).

Knittel defended a traditional point of view in theology and was against the modern textual criticism.

According to him Erasmus in his Novum Instrumentum omne did not incorporate the Comma from Codex Montfortianus, because of grammar differences, but used Complutensian Polyglotta.