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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 348 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUST WILHELM See also:MEYER (1800-1873)  , See also:German See also:Protestant divine, was See also:born at See also:Gotha on the loth of See also:January 1800 . He studied See also:theology at See also:Jena, and eventually became (1841) pastor, member of the See also:consistory, and See also:superintendent at See also:Hanover . He died on the 21st of See also: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, See also:Friedrich Dusterdieck and G . K . G . Lunemann, and has been translated into See also:English . New See also:editions have been undertaken by such scholars as A . B . See also:Ritschl, B .

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

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