Background
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer was born on the 10th of January, 1800 in Gotha, Germany.
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Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer was born on the 10th of January, 1800 in Gotha, Germany.
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer studied theology at Jena, was pastor at Harste, Hoya, also serving as superintendent there, and Neustadt am Rübenberge, and eventually became (1841) member of the Hanover Consistory of the Church of Hanover, and superintendent at Hanover.
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer wrote commentaries on the New Testament and published an edition of that book 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, Hans Hinrich Wendt, Carl Friedrich Georg Heinrici, Willibald Beyschlag and Friedrich A. East. Sieffert.
Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer was a prominrent divine and scholar, whose chief contribution to scholarship was the internationally famous commentary series which he founded, Kritischexegetischer Kommentar über das Neuen Testament.
