Caspar René Gregory was an American-born scholar who spent his career in Germany and made enduring contributions to the cataloguing and description of New Testament manuscripts.
Setting: American-born, German university Protestant scholarship.
Caspar René Gregory was an American-born scholar who spent his career in Germany and made enduring contributions to the cataloguing and description of New Testament manuscripts. The Gregory numbering system, later joined with von Dobschütz’s work, became the Gregory-Aland system still used today.
His biography demonstrates that infrastructure is never merely clerical: the way witnesses are identified, dated, and grouped shapes all later textual arguments.
Bibliological positions
Comprehensive manuscript registration and direct examination are prerequisites for critical reconstruction of the New Testament text.
Qualifications and disputes
Cataloguing achievement should be distinguished from particular editorial conclusions; modern catalogue entries have corrected and expanded his data.
Individual dates and identifications require current INTF verification.
Sources
- Internet Archive creator search — Textkritik, canon-and-text works, and catalogues
Principal works
- Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes (1900–1909); legacy
WRK-1119; WRK; Ready after permanent-ID allocation and duplicate scan
Historical person network
People, doctrines, texts, and reported interactions
Relationship labels distinguish contact, refutation, later reporting, accusation, textual agreement, compatibility, and causation. A connection does not silently inherit the force of another connection.
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- Record
- PER-3029
- Status
- Preliminary
- Version
- 1.1-profile
- Review
- Level B — Editorial synthesis
- Editor
- Chris Thomas
- Reviewer
- Independent reviewer pending assignment
- First date
- 2026-07-22 · Exact Day
- Last revised
- 2026-07-22
Evidence and editorial controls
- Verification
- Recovered project data; bibliographic and source-level verification remains record-specific.
- Rights and access
- Original editorial synthesis; cited sources retain their stated rights.
- Known limitations
- Sourced orientation record. Education, dated offices, languages, confessional subscription, verified quotations, and independent review may remain incomplete.
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Chris Thomas, “Caspar René Gregory,” PER-3029, Confessional Bibliology Research Center, version 1.0-staging.
Revision history
- — Chris Thomas
- — Chris Thomas