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Nestle was a son of the upper tribunal procurator Obertribunalprokurator Christian Gottlieb Nestle and his wife Sophie Beate Kleinmann. His half-brother from his father's second marriage was classical philologist Wilhelm Nestle. His studies culminated in his doctoral thesis on the Hebrew and Greek text forms of the Book of Ezekiel.

Afterwards he worked in the area of orientalism and wrote, among other things, a Syriac grammar. During his later years, his focus changed to textual criticism of the New Testament.

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Between and he worked as professor at the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren. In his wife died after a short illness, and three years later, in , Nestle married Elisabeth Aichele — In this second marriage, five daughters and one son were born. In Nestle published a handbook of textual criticism, and in published the first edition of a Greek New Testament under the title Novum Testamentum Graece cum apparatu critico ex editionibus et libris manu scriptis collecto.

This edition eliminated the extremes of Tischendorf, such as partiality to Sinaiticus , and of Westcott and Hort, such as partiality to Vaticanus. After the death of Eberhard Nestle his son Erwin Nestle — took over the publication and contributed substantially to a constant improvement of the editions. Since the edition occurred with the cooperation of Kurt Aland 21st edition.