Bertram Otto Bardenhewer (Mönchengladbach, 16 March 1851 – Munich, 23 March 1935) was a German Catholic patrologist. His Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur is a standard work, re-issued in 2008.Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur, introduction by Alfons Fürst, For Bardenhewer, a patrologist was not a literary historian of the Church Fathers, but a historian of dogmatic definitions.Hubert Jedin, John Dolan, The Church in the Industrial Age (1981), p. 324 note.
Life He was born the son of a legal advisor and the grandson of a notary.
He was educated at the University of Bonn (Ph.D., 1873) and University of Würzburg. He became a Catholic priest in 1875. In 1879, he became privat-docent of theology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 1884, he accepted a call to the University of Münster as professor of Old Testament. Two years later he returned to the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, as a professor for New Testament exegesis and Biblical hermeneutics, a position he held until 1924.
Works Hermetis Trismegisti qui apud Arabes fertur de castigatione animæ libellus (Bonn, 1873) Des heiligen Hippolytus von Rom Kommentar zum Buche Daniel (Freiburg, 1877) Polychronius, Bruder Theodors von Mopsuestia and Bischof von Apamea (1879) Die pseudo-aristotelische Schrift über die reine Gute, bekannt unter dem Namen "Liber de Causis" (1882) Patrologie (1894) Geschichte der altkirchlichen Literatur (5 vols., 1902 to 1932).
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