August Hermann Cremer (18 October 1834, in

Unna Unna is a city of around 59,000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, the seat of the Unna district. The newly refurbished Unna station has trains to all major cities in North Rhine Westphalia including Dortmund, Cologne, Münster, Hamm, D ...

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– 4 October 1903) was a German

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theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He was considered head of the so-called ''Greifswalder Schule'' at the

University of Greifswald The University of Greifswald (; german: Universität Greifswald), formerly also known as “Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald“, is a public research university located in Greifswald, Germany, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pom ...

. He studied theology in Halle under

Friedrich August Tholuck Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck (30 March 1799 – 10 June 1877), known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian, pastor, and historian, and church leader. Biography Tholuck was born at Breslau, and educated at the gymnasium and ...

and at

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as a pupil of

Johann Tobias Beck Johann Tobias Beck (22 February 1804 in Balingen, Württemberg – 28 December 1878 in Tübingen) was a German theologian. Biography Graduating from the University of Tübingen in 1826, he was ordained a minister, but later accepted an appoin ...

. From 1859 he served as

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in Ostönnen (today part of the city of Soest), and in 1870 was appointed professor of

systematic theology Systematic theology, or systematics, is a discipline of Christian theology that formulates an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the doctrines of the Christian faith. It addresses issues such as what the Bible teaches about certain topi ...

at the University of Greifswald. Cremer was the author of a biblico-theological

lexicon A lexicon is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). In linguistics, a lexicon is a language's inventory of lexemes. The word ''lexicon'' derives from Koine Greek language, Greek word (), neuter of () ...

New Testament The New Testament grc, Ἡ Καινὴ Διαθήκη, transl. ; la, Novum Testamentum. (NT) is the second division of the Christian biblical canon. It discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christ ...

Greek, titled ''Biblisch-theologisches Wörterbuch der neutestamentlichen Gräcität''. This work was published over several editions and also translated into English a
''Biblico-theological lexicon of New Testament Greek''
(1895).Reformed Dogmatics: Holy Spirit, Church, and New Creation
by Herman Bavinck, John Bolt Another significant work was a book on the Pauline Doctrine of Justification called ''Paulinische Rechtfertigungslehre im Zusammenhange ihrer geschichtlichen Voraussetzungen'' (1899). In 1897, with

Adolf Schlatter Adolf Schlatter (16 August 1852 – 19 May 1938) was a world-leading Protestant theologian and professor specialising in the New Testament and systematics at Greifswald, Berlin and Tübingen. Schlatter has published more than 400 scholarly and po ...

(1852-1938), he founded the magazine ''Beiträge zur Förderung christlicher Theologie'' ("Articles for the Promotion of Christian Theology").

References

translated biography @

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