MEIDERLIN, PETER. See Meldenius, Rupertus.

MEIER, mni'er, ERNST JULIUS: German Lu theran; b. at Zwickau Sept. 7, 1828; d. at Dresden Oct. 6, 1897. He studied at the University of Leip aic and filled the successive positions of pastor at Flemmingen (1854-64), superintendent at L6sanitz (18647), superintendent of the diocese of Dresden (1867-90), and court preacher and vice-president of the national consistory at Dresden (1890-97). By his vigorous personality he exercised a profound influence upon the national church of Saxony and its clergy. His especial gift was preaching. His versatile spiritual interest was coupled with ready command of expression, together with much skill in the way of ingenious coordination of ideas. His sermons stick closely to their text, and his ideas are clearly presented, though their style pre supposes a rather high degree of culture in the audience. He published three volumes of ser mons (Leipsic, 1871, 1877, 1886), two collections of addresses as superintendent (1871, 1881), and sundry lectures.

Georg Rietschel.

Bibliography: B. KUhn, in Beiträge zur edchsischen Kir- cAengeschichte, zai. 1 sqq., Leipsic 1897; C. Meneel, Kirch- fiches Handlexikon, iv. 524-525, Leipsic, 1894.

MEINHOLD, main'holt, JOHANN FRIEDRICH HELLMUT: German Lutheran; b. at Kammin (40 m. n.n.e. of Stettin), Aug. 12, 1861. He was educated at the universities of Leipsic, Berlin, Greifawald, and Tübingen from 1879 to 1884, and

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in the latter year became privat-docent for theology at Greifswald, where he was appointed associate professor four years later. In 1889 he went in a similar capacity to Bonn, where he was promoted to his present position of full professor of Old-Testament exegesis and Hebrew in 1903. In addition to briefer contributions, he has written: Die Composition des Buches Daniel (Greifswald, 1884); Beiträge zur Erkl�rung les B�ches Daniel, i. (Leipsic, 1888); Die geschichtlichen Hagiographen (Chronika, Esra, Nehemia, Ruth, Esther) und das B�ch Daniel ausgelegt (in collaboration with S. Oettli; Nördlingen, 1889); Wider den Kleinglauben, sin ernstes Wort an die evangelischen Christen aller Parteien (Freiburg, 1895); Jesus und das Alte Testament, sin zweites ernstes Wort an die evangelischen Christen (1896); Jesaja und seine Zeit (1898); Die Jesajaerzdhlungen, Jesaja 36-39 (Göttingen, 1898); Die Lade Jahves (Tübingen, 1900); Studien zur israelitischen Religionsgeschichte, i. (Bonn, 1903); Die biblische Urgeschichte in gemeinveratdndlicher Daratellung (1904); and Sabbat and Woche im Alten Testament (Göttingen, 1905).