"that man [Tischendorf] will do anything for money" - Baron von Bunsen - the tissuedorfs

Steven Avery

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"Baron von Bunsen .. that man [namely, Tischendorf] will do anything for money"

Athenaeum (1901)
Biblical Literature
https://books.google.com/books?id=Cl5DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA208


Christian Charles Josias von Bunsen (1791-1860)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Charles_Josias_von_Bunsen

On this thread we can summarize a couple of the tissuedorfs, clever and fanciful historical fabrications designed to turn dubious, unethical actions into altruistic ventures.

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"Granted that Tischendorf has exhibited an unscholarly greed of English gold, and an unseemly obsequiousness to rank"
- his supporter William Aldis Wright
https://books.google.com/books?id=fX1NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA69
 
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