Alfred Schmidtke

Alfred Schmidtke was a German New Testament scholar. As a collaborator of Hermann von Soden he worked on Greek uncial codices of the New Testament. Schmidtke travelled investigating the libraries of the monasteries of Albania and Macedonia on von Soden's behalf. In 1903, after a "long stay" at Mount Athos he published a description of the monastic republic there. In 1907 he assisted in the publication of the Paris uncial, in 1911 his work on the manuscripts of the Jewish Christian Gospels was published. There is no further record of him after the outbreak of World War I.