Eduard meyer biography

Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a German historian.
Date of Birth: January 25, 1855; Born City: Hamburg; Born State/Country: Germany; Date of Death: August 31, 1930; Death City: Berlin; Death State/Country.
The German historian Eduard Meyer argued that Judaism originated in the Persian period, or the days of Ezra and Nehemiah (5th century bce).

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Eduard Meyer

German historian (1855–1930)

Not to be confused with Eduard Mayer. For the Luftwaffe ace, see Eduard Meyer (pilot).

Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a Germanhistorian. He was the brother of CelticistKuno Meyer (1858–1919).

Biography

Meyer was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums^[1] and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. After completing his studies, he spent one year in Istanbul. In 1879, he went to the University of Leipzig as Privatdozent. He was appointed professor of ancient history at Breslau in 1885, at Halle in 1889, and at Berlin in 1902. He lectured at Harvard in 1909 and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1910. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.^[2] Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, St. Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities.

He died in Berlin.

Egyptology

In 1904 Meyer was the first to note the Sothic cycle of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, which forms the basis for the traditional ch

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born 5 May 1813, in Berlin, Prussia

died 19 December 1862, aged 49

Rev. Eduard Meyer, from the Evangelical Lutheran Mission Society in Dresden, Germany, was the first missionary to work among the Ngarrindjeri people of South Australia, working among the Ramindjeri of the Encounter Bay area. While his focus was on spiritual work, he started a school, encouraged the people to support themselves through farming and left valuable ethnographic and linguistic records that have informed the present-day revival of Ngarrindjeri language and culture.

Heinrich August Eduard Meyer 1836
Source: State Library of South Australia B 8236,
Sketch by artist S. Jacobssohn

Theological formation

Pastor Heinrich August Eduard Meyer (known as Eduard) was born in Berlin on 5 May 1813.¹ His father, Carl, was a lacquerer. Meyer aspired to be an artist but, as his family could not afford the training for this, he became a plumber. His family joined the Old Lutheran congregation in Berlin, whose pastor, Friedrich

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Not to be confused with Eduard Mayer. For the Luftwaffe ace, see Eduard Meyer (pilot).

Eduard Meyer;
portrait by Lovis Corinth

Eduard Meyer (25 January 1855 – 31 August 1930) was a Germanhistorian. He was the brother of Celticist Kuno Meyer (1858–1919).

Biography

Meyer was born in Hamburg and educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums and later at the universities of Bonn and Leipzig. After completing his studies, he spent one year in Istanbul. In 1879, he went to the University of Leipzig as Privatdozent. He was appointed professor of ancient history at Breslau in 1885, at Halle in 1889, and at Berlin in 1902. He lectured at Harvard in 1909 and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1910. That same year, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society. Honorary degrees were given him by Oxford, St. Andrews, Freiburg, and Chicago universities.

He died in Berlin.

Egyptology

In 1904 Meyer was the first to note the Sothic cycle of the Heliacal rising of Sirius, which forms the basis for the traditional chronology of Egypt.