Georg Benedikt Winer

Georg Benedikt Winer (13 April 1789, Leipzig – 12 May 1858, Leipzig) was a German Protestant theologian, known for his linguistic studies of the New Testament. Theologically, Winer was an "anti-trinitarian".^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] He is well known as the author of a Grammatik des neutestamentlichen Sprachidioms (1821, 8th edition, revised by P. W. Schmiedel, 1894 ff.), of which several translations have appeared, one of them being by W. F. Moulton^[4] (1870, 3rd edition 1882; "A Treatise on the Grammar of New Testament Greek").^[5]

His other works include:^[4]

• Komparative Darstellung des Lehrbegriffs der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchenpartheien (1824; 4th edition by P. Ewald, 1882; English translation as "A comparative view of the doctrines and confessions of the various communities of Christendom", 1873).^[6]
• Biblisches Realwörterbuch (1820; 3rd edition 1847–1848, 2 volumes) – Biblical dictionary.
• Grammatik des biblischen und targumischen Chaldaismus (1824; 3rd edition by B Fischer, Chaldäische Grammatik für Bibel und Talmud, 1882; English translation as Grammar of the Chaldee Language as contained in the Bible and the Targums, 1842).^[7]
• Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie (1820; 3rd edition 1838–1840, 2 volumes; supplement, 1842) – Handbook of theological literature.^[2]