HEINRICH

AUGUST WILHELM

See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM MEYER (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

MEYER (1800-1873)  , German Protestant divine, was born at Gotha on the loth of January 1800 . He studied theology at Jena, and eventually became (1841) pastor, member of the consistory, and superintendent at Hanover . He died on the 21st of June 1873 . 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 J . E . Huther, Friedrich Dusterdieck and G . K . G . Lunemann, and has been translated into English . New editions have been undertaken by such scholars as A . B . Ritschl, B .

Weiss, H . Wendt, K . F . G . Heinrici, W . Beyschlag and F . A . E . Sieffert . Meyer also published an edition of the New Testament, with a translation (1829) and a Latin version of the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church (183o) . He is not to be confounded with JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON MEYER (1772-1849), the senator of Frankfort, who published a translation of the Bible in 1819 (Die heilige Schrift in berichtigter Ubersetzung mit kurzen Anmerkungen; 2nd ed., 1823; 3rd ed., 1855) .