Philipp Meyer (theologian, 1883)

Philipp Meyer (born November 12, 1883 in Smyrna ; † January 6, 1963 in Göttingen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and church historian.

Life

Meyer was the son of the Lutheran theologian of the same name, Philipp Meyer . He studied Protestant theology and was on June 9, 1909 ordained . After working as a parish priest in Cardiff and in Wülfinghausen , he became conventual director of studies in Loccum in 1924 and a member of the regional church office of the Hanoverian regional church in 1929 . Temporarily retired during the church struggle, he was given the pastor's post in Adelebsen in 1934 . From 1937 he was also an extraordinary, later a part-time full member of the regional church office. In 1951 he retired.

Meyer made a name for himself above all as the editor of the yearbook of the Society for Church History of Lower Saxony and as the editor of the pastors' book The Pastors of the Regional Churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation (Göttingen 1941/42). In 1952 the Theological Faculty of the University of Göttingen awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Meyer was married to Eleonore, a sister-in-law of Karl Henke .

Fonts

• The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Vols. 1–3, Göttingen 1941–1953.
• From the history of the Reformation in Lower Saxony (= source books on Lower Saxony's history. 4/5). Lax, Hildesheim 1952.
• The Hanoverian Catechism Controversy of 1862. Selected sources on the history of the presbyterial and synodal constitution. Hanover 1962.

literature

• Festschrift for the 70th birthday of Oberlandeskirchenrat retired D. Philipp Meyer (= yearbook of the Society for Lower Saxony Church History. Volume 51). 1953.
• Meyer, Philipp. In: The religion in history and present . 3. Edition. Register volume, 1965, col. 161.
• Hans Piepho:  Meyer, Philipp. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 526 f. ( Digitized version ).