Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (10 January 1800 – 21 June 1873) was a German Protestant

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. He wrote commentaries on the ''

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'' and published an edition of that book.

Biography

Meyer was born in

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. He studied

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, was pastor at Harste, Hoya, also serving as

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there, and at

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, and eventually became a member of the Hanover

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of the Church of Hanover and superintendent at

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in 1841. 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 Bernhard Weiss (20 June 182714 January 1918) was a German Protestant New Testament scholar. He was the father of Johannes Weiss and the painter, Hedwig Weiss. Biography Weiss was born at Königsberg. After studying theology at the University ...

Hans Hinrich Wendt Hans Hinrich Wendt (June 18, 1853 in Hamburg – January 19, 1928 in Jena) was a German Protestant theologian. Life After studying theology at Leipzig, Göttingen and Tübingen, he became in 1885 professor ordinarius of systematic theology at ...

, Carl Friedrich Georg Heinrici,

Willibald Beyschlag Johann Heinrich Christoph Willibald Beyschlag (5 September 1823 – 25 November 1900 in Halle an der Saale) was a German theologian from Frankfurt am Main. Biography He studied theology at the Universities of Bonn and Berlin, afterwards se ...

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). An 1880 edition translated by Peter Christie and revised and edited by Frederick Crombie is available online.Meyer's NT Commentary
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Meyer also published an edition of the ''New Testament'', with a translation (1829) and a

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version of the symbolical books of the Lutheran Church (1830).

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