Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (Mönchengladbach, 16 March 1851 –Munich, 23 March 1935) was a German Catholicpatrologist. HisGeschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008.[1] For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of theChurch Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.[2]
He was educated at theUniversity of Bonn (Ph.D., 1873) andUniversity of Würzburg, and in 1879 becameprivat-docent of theology at theUniversity of Munich. 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.
