Niemeyer, Hermann Agathon

Niemeyer, Hermann Agathon a German divine, son of August Hermann, was born at Halle, January 5, 1802. He pursued his theological studies at his native place, and commenced his theological career there in 1825. In 1826 he was called to Jena, but returned in 1829 to Halle, and died December 6, 1851. He published, De Docetis Comment. Hist. Theolog. (Halle, 1823): — De Isidori Pelusiotae Vita, Scriptis et Doctrina (ibid. 1825): — Collectio Confessionum in Ecclesiis Reformatis Publicatarum (Leipsic, 1840). See Winer. Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:162, 586, 640, 896; Zucholdi, Bibl. Theol. 2:943. (B.P.)