Eduard Schwartz

German philologist

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development of textual criticism

  • In textual criticism: Reaction against the genealogical method

    …extreme position was taken by E. Schwartz, who in his edition of Eusebius’s Historia ecclesiastica (1909) denied that “vertically” transmitted texts of Greek books existed at all. The limitations of the stemmatic method have subsequently been stressed in a more temperate fashion by other writers. The modern tendency is to…

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