Heinrich Meyer (Bishop)

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Bishop Meyer (right) with the then Federal Minister of the Interior Gerhard Schröder at a reception in Lübeck's town hall in 1961

Heinrich Meyer (born October 16, 1904 in Aabenraa (now Denmark), † May 25, 1978 in Lübeck ) was a German Lutheran missionary and bishop .

Life

Heinrich Meyer was married to Sophie Johanna Meyer, b. Hansen. In 1929 both went to India as missionaries, where Heinrich Meyer began his service in the Jeypore mission (Orissa province).

After many years as a missionary in India , he returned to Germany and he habilitated in 1951 at the University of Heidelberg in the subject Mission Studies .

In 1956 he was elected bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck . He campaigned for better cooperation between the four regional churches in the areas north of the Elbe, which finally, in 1977, led to a merger as the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church .

Fonts

  • Marie von Koenneritz: One for whom God became too strong. With life picture of Klaus Lederer, called Lentz, the father of the Brothers in the Warthebruch . With an appendix by Heinrich Meyer. Appel, Hamburg 1951.
  • Lutheran churches in the struggle for a new creed. Claudius-Verlag, Munich 1951 (habilitation thesis).
  • Confession and confession formation in young churches. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1953.
  • Christ and the world
  • Book 4: Religion and the Gospel
  • Book 5: This is how I saw India. 1960
  • Book 6: This is how I saw Africa. 1961
  • Book 10: Church for the World. 1962
  • Book 15: Mission in Ecumenical Responsibility. 1963
  • What theological tasks does New Delhi give us? Jensen, Breklum 1963.
  • We love India. MBK-Verlag, Verlag für Mission- und Bibkunde, Bad Salzuflen 1963.

literature

  • Theodor Ahrens:  Meyer, Heinrich. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 349 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Klaus Gruhn u. a. (Ed.): A bishop as missionary, theologian and preacher: essays, lectures and sermons . Festschrift for Bishop Heinrich Meyer published on his 70th birthday on October 16, 1974. Breklumer Verlag, Breklum 1974.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Bishop Heinrich Meyer died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of June 2, 1978, p. 4.
predecessor Office successor
Johannes Pautke Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck
1956–1972 		Karlheinz Stoll (Senior)
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran missionary and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aabenraa (now Denmark)
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1978
Place of death Lübeck