Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (10 January 1800 – 21 June 1873) was a German Protestant
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. He wrote commentaries on the ''
New Testament
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'' and published an edition of that book.
Biography
Meyer was born in
Gotha
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. He studied
theology
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at
Jena
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, was pastor at Harste,
Hoya, also serving as
superintendent
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there, and at
Neustadt am Rübenberge
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, and eventually became a member of the Hanover
Consistory
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of the
Church of Hanover and superintendent at
Hanover
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in 1841.
He is chiefly noted for his valuable ''Kritischexegetischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament'' (16 vols.), which began to appear in 1832, was completed in 1859 with the assistance of Johann Eduard Huther, Friedrich Düsterdieck and Gottlieb Lünemann, and has been translated into English. New editions have been undertaken by such scholars as
A. B. Ritschl,
Bernhard Weiss
Bernhard Weiss (20 June 182714 January 1918) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar. He was the father of Johannes Weiss and the painter, Hedwig Weiss.
Biography
Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at the University ...
,
Hans Hinrich Wendt,
Carl Friedrich Georg Heinrici,
Willibald Beyschlag and Friedrich A. E. Sieffert. The English translation in Clark's series is in 20 volumes (1873–82), and there is an American edition in 11 volumes (1884–88). An 1880 edition translated by Peter Christie and revised and edited by Frederick Crombie is available online.
Meyer's NT Commentary
Online Parallel Bible Project
Biblehub.com
Meyer also published an edition of the ''New Testament'', with a translation (1829) and a Latin
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version of the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church (1830).
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1800 births
1873 deaths
19th-century German Protestant theologians
German Protestant clergy
19th-century German male writers
German male non-fiction writers