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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 348 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEINRICH

AUGUST WILHELM MEYER (1800-1873)  , German
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Protestant divine, was born at
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Gotha on the loth of
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January 1800 . He studied
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theology at
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Jena, and eventually became (1841) pastor, member of the consistory, and superintendent at Hanover . He died on the 21st of
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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
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English . New
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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
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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
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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) .

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