Georg Benedikt Winer German

Germany

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 Protestant theologian

Theology

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, was born at Leipzig

Leipzig

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He studied theology at Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

, where eventually (1832) he became professor ordinarius. From 1824 to 1830 he edited with J. G. V. Engelhardt

Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt

Johann Georg Veit Engelhardt , a German theologian, was born at Neustadt-on-the-Aisch.He and was educated at Erlangen, where he afterwards taught in the gymnasium , and became professor of theology in the university .His two great works were a Handbuch der Kirchengeschichte in 4 volumes , and a...

 the Neues kritisches Journal der theologischen Literatur, and alone from 1826 to 1832 the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie.

He is well known as the author of a Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms (1821, 8th ed. revised by P. W. Schmiedel

Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel

Paul Wilhelm Schmiedel was a German theologian and professor of New Testament exegesis born in Zaukeroda near Dresden....

, 1894 ff.), of which several translations have appeared, the latest being by W. F. Moulton

William Fiddian Moulton

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 (1870, 3rd ed. 1882).

His other works include:

• Komparative Darstellung des Lehrbegriffs der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchenpartheien (1824; 4th ed. by P. Ewald, 1882; Eng. trans. 1873)
• Biblisches Realworterbuch (1820; 3rd ed. 1847-1848, 2 vols)
• Grammatik des biblischen und targumischen Chaldaismus (1824; 3rd ed. by B Fischer, Chaldäische Grammatik für Bibel und Talmud, 1882; Eng. trans. 1845)
• Hand-buch der theologischen Literatur (1820; 3rd ed. 1838-1840, 2 vols; supplement, 1842)

See W. Schmidt

Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt

Wilhelm Adolf Schmidt was a German historian.- Biography :He studied at Berlin, in 1839 becoming a lecturer there, and in 1845 professor. In 1851, he became professor for history at the University of Zürich; nine years, he went to the University of Jena, where he remained for the rest of his life...

, Zum Gedachtnis Dr. G. B. Winers, in the Beitrage zur sächsischen Kirchengeschichte.
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