Otto Bardenhewer

Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (Mönchengladbach, 16 March 1851 – Munich, 23 March 1935) was a German Catholic patrologist.

His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008.

[1] For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.

In 1884 he accepted a call to Münster as professor of Old Testament.

Two years later he returned to Munich, as a professor for New Testament exegesis and Biblical hermeneutics, a position he held to 1924.