August Hermann Cremer was a German Protestant theologian. He was considered head of the so-called Greifswalder Schule at the University of Greifswald.

He studied theology in Halle under Friedrich August Tholuck and in Tübingen with Johann Tobias Beck

Johann Tobias Beck

Johann Tobias Beck was a German theologian.-Biography:Graduating from the University of Tübingen in 1826, he was ordained a minister, but later accepted an appointment as professor of theology at the University of Basel...

. From 1859 he served as pastor

Pastor

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 in Ostönnen (today part of the city of Soest

Soest, Germany

Soest is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is the capital of the Soest district. After Lippstadt, a neighbouring town, Soest is the second biggest town in its district.-Geography:...

), and in 1870 was appointed professor of systematic theology

Systematic theology

In the context of Christianity, systematic theology is a discipline of Christian theology that attempts to formulate an orderly, rational, and coherent account of the Christian faith and beliefs...

 at the University of Greifswald.

Cremer is remembered today as author of a biblico-theological lexicon

Lexicon

In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. A lexicon is also a synonym of the word thesaurus. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes. Coined in English 1603, the word "lexicon" derives from the Greek "λεξικόν" , neut...

 of 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....

 Greek titled Biblisch-theologisches Wörterbuch der neutestamentlichen Gräcität. This work was published over several editions and also translated into English. Another significant work was a book on the Pauline Doctrine of Justification

Justification (theology)

Rising out of the Protestant Reformation, Justification is the chief article of faith describing God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice....

 called Paulinische Rechtfertigungslehre im Zusammenhange ihrer geschichtlichen Voraussetzungen (1899). In 1897 with Adolf Schlatter

Adolf Schlatter

Adolf Schlatter was an Evangelical theologian and professor specialising in the New Testament and systematics at Greifswald, Berlin and Tübingen.-Biography:Schlatter, born in St...

(1852-1938), he founded the magazine Beiträge zur Förderung christlicher Theologie (Articles for the Promotion of Christian Theology).