Lagarde, Paul Anton De (1827-1891)

lagarde, paul anton de (1827-1891), German Orientalist. He was a pupil of M. G. Schwartze, became professor in Göttingen in 1869, and published many texts of the Old Testament: Der Pentateuch koptisch (1867); Psalterii Versio Memphitica (1875); Psalterium, Job, Proverbia Arabice (1876); and "Bruchstücke der koptischen Übersetzung des ATs" (Abhandlungen der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaflen zu Göttingen 24, 1879, pp. 63-104). His New Testament texts include Acta Apostolorum Coptice (1852); Epistulae Novi Testamenti Coptice (1852); and Catenae in Evangelia Aegyptiacae quae Supersunt (1886). His apocryphal texts are in Aegyptiaca (1883).