Mejer, Otto, 1818-1893

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Name (Latin)
Mejer, Otto, 1818-1893
Other forms of name
Mejer, Otto Karl Alexander, 1818-1893
Mejer, Otto Georg Alexander, 1818-1892
Date of birth
1818-05-27
Date of death
1893-12-24
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 72174341
Wikidata: Q2039945
Library of congress: n 2022068559
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Wikipedia description:

Otto Karl Alexander Mejer (27 May 1818, Zellerfeld – 24 December 1893, Hanover) was a German canon law specialist and church historian. He studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Jena, receiving his doctorate at Göttingen in 1841. While a student in Berlin, he was deeply influenced by the teachings of Friedrich Carl von Savigny. Not long after graduation, he became a lecturer at Göttingen, and in 1845/46 took an extended study trip to Rome. In 1847 he became a full professor of law at the University of Königsberg, which was followed by professorships at Greifswald (1850) and Rostock (1851). In 1874 he returned as a professor to Göttingen, where he taught classes until his retirement in 1883. From 1885 to 1893 he was president of the State Consistory at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, then the highest-ranking office of the church.

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