Dietrich Meyer (theologian)

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Dietrich Meyer (born September 23, 1937 in Mocker , Leobschütz district , Upper Silesia province ) is a German Protestant theologian and church historian.

Live and act

After graduating from high school in Cologne , Meyer studied Protestant theology in Berlin , Bethel , Tübingen , Basel and Bonn from 1957 to 1961 . In 1963 he was at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on Nicolaus Zinzendorf to Dr. theol. PhD and ordained in 1965 . After serving as an assistant preacher in Holpe near Waldbröl , he taught at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut from 1967 to 1971 . He then trained as an archivist and began working in the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in Düsseldorf in 1973 . Appointed Head of the Archives in 1976, he retired in 2000.

Meyer has published and edited numerous works, especially on Pietism and the recent church history of Silesia and the Rhineland. A special focus was on biography research. He was (co-) editor of the Yearbook for Silesian Church History , the monthly issue for Rhenish Church History and the series of publications of the Association for Rhenish Church History . He is chairman of the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation, founded in 1952, and a member of the Historical Commission for Silesia .

Fonts (selection)

  • The Christocentrism of the late Zinzendorf. A study on the concept of daily dealing with the Savior . Lang, Bern a. a. 1973.
  • Zinzendorf and the Moravian Brethren (1700–2000) . Göttingen 2000; New edition 2009.
  • On the history of the Protestant theological faculty of the University of Breslau 1811–1945. In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History. New episode. Volume 68, 1989, pp. 149-174.

As editor

  • Bibliographical manual on Zinzendorf research . Düsseldorf 1987.
  • Pietism - Herrnhutertum - Awakening Movement: Festschrift for Erich Beyreuther . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1982.
  • (with Bernd Hey ): Files of supervised persons as an archival task: Consultation and patient files in the field of tension between privacy protection and historical research . Degener, Neustadt an der Aisch 1997.
  • The new song in the Evangelical Hymnal. Song poets and composers report . Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, 2nd edition, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-930250-17-9 .
  • Gerhard Tersteegen : I pray to the power of love. A selection from his works . Giessen 1997.
  • Church history as an autobiography. A look into the workshop of contemporary church historians . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1999 (vol. 1), 2002 (vol. 2).
  • Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. He the master, we the brothers. A selection of his speeches, letters and songs . Giessen 2000.
  • (with Udo Sträter ): On the reception of mystical traditions in Protestantism from the 16th to 19th centuries. Contributions to a symposium for the Tersteegen anniversary in 1997 . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2002.
  • Remembered legacy. Contributions to the Silesian church history. Festschrift for Christian-Erdmann Schott . Herrnhut 2002.
  • Beyond Silesia. On church history in Central Europe. Celebration for Herbert Patzelt on his 80th birthday . Herrnhut 2004.
  • Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf: Catechisms . Göttingen 2008 (= texts on the history of Pietism , Dept. IV vol. 6,1).
  • Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf: Bible and Bible use . Göttingen 2015 (= texts on the history of Pietism , Dept. IV Vol. 7.1 and 7.2).
  • with Gustav Adolf Benrath, Ulrich Hutter-Wolandt, Ludwig Petry and Horst Weigelt : On the history of the Protestant Church in Silesia. Munich 1992.

literature

  • Rudolf Mohr (Ed.): "Everything is yours, but you are Christ". Festschrift for Dietrich Meyer . Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Schmid : Greetings for the ceremony 50 years of the Silesian Cultural Works Foundation. In: Würzburg medical history reports. Volume 22, 2003, pp. 579-581.
  2. ↑ Membership directory ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the Historical Commission. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hiko-schlesien.de
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Dietrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian and church historian
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Mocker , Leobschütz district , Upper Silesia province