
Gustav Adolf Deissmann was a German Protestant theologian, best known for his leading work on the Greek language used in the New Testament, which he showed was the koine, or commonly used tongue of the Hellenistic world of that time.

August Adolf Eisenlohr was a German Egyptologist.

Caspar René Gregory was an American-born German theologian.

Robert Hübner is a German chess grandmaster, chess writer, and papyrologist. He was one of the world's leading players in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Christian Cornelius Jensen was a German classical philologist and papyrologist. His father, Christian Jensen (1857–1936), was a local historian and teacher.

Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Schubart was a German ancient historian. He was leading authority in the field of papyrology.

Carsten Peter Thiede OCF KStJ was a German archaeologist and New Testament scholar. He was also a member of PEN and appointed a Knight of Justice of the Order of St John. He taught as Professor of New Testament Times and History at the Staatsunabhängige Theologische Hochschule (STH) in Basel and at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheba, Israel. He often advanced theories that conflicted with the consensus of academic and theological scholarship.