Georg Benedikt Winer


Georg Benedikt Winer, German Protestant theologian, known for his linguistic studies of the New Testament.

Life

He studied theology at Leipzig, where in 1819 he began work as a curator at the Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig. In 1823 he became a full professor of theology at the University of Erlangen, then in 1832 returned to Leipzig, where he worked in a similar role as in Erlangen. On several separate occasions he served as dean to the theological faculty, and in 1842 was named university rector.
From 1824 to 1830 he edited with J. G. V. Engelhardt, 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, of which several translations have appeared, one of them being by W. F. Moulton.
His other works include: