Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (January 10, 1800 - June 21, 1873), was a German Protestant divine. He wrote commentaries on the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

and published an edition of that book.

Biography

Meyer was born in Gotha

Gotha (town)

Gotha is a town in Thuringia, within the central core of Germany. It is the capital of the district of Gotha.- History :The town has existed at least since the 8th century, when it was mentioned in a document signed by Charlemagne as Villa Gotaha . Its importance derives from having been chosen in...

. He studied theology at Jena

Jena

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, was pastor at Harste, Hoye and Neustadt, and eventually became (1841) pastor, member of the consistory, and superintendent at Hanover

Hanover

Hanover or Hannover, on the river Leine, is the capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony , Germany and was once by personal union the family seat of the Hanoverian Kings of Great Britain, under their title as the dukes of Brunswick-Lüneburg...

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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

Albrecht Ritschl

Albrecht Ritschl was a German theologian.Starting in 1852, Ritschl lectured on "Systematic Theology". According to this system, faith was understood to be irreducible to other experiences, beyond the scope of reason. Faith, he said, came not from facts but from value judgments...

, Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss

Bernhard Weiss was a German Protestant New Testament scholar.-Biography:Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at the University of Königsberg , Halle and Berlin, he became professor extraordinarius at Königsberg in 1852, and afterwards professor ordinarius at Berlin...

, Hans Hinrich Wendt

Hans Hinrich Wendt

Hans Hinrich Wendt was a German Protestant theologian. After studying theology at Leipzig, Göttingen and Tübingen, he became in 1885 professor ordinarius of systematic theology at Heidelberg, and in 1893 was called to Jena. His work on the teaching of Jesus Hans Hinrich Wendt (June 18, 1853,...

, [Karl Friedrich] Georg Heinrici, Willibald Beyschlag

Willibald Beyschlag

Willibald Beyschlag was a German theologian from Frankfurt.He was a professor of theology at the University of Halle and the leader of the Evangelical Middle Party. Beyschlag founded the Protestant League in 1886, believing that only in unity could German Protestantism find strength....

 and Friedrich A. E. Sieffert. The English translation in Clark's series is in 20 volumes (1873-82), and there is an American edition in 11 volumes (1884-88).

Meyer also published an edition of the New Testament

New Testament

The New Testament is the second major division of the Christian biblical canon, the first such division being the much longer Old Testament....

, with a translation (1829) and a Latin version of the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church (1830).