Georg Benedikt Winer

Georg Benedikt Winer was a German Protestant theologian, known for his linguistic studies of the New Testament. Theologically, Winer was an "anti-trinitarian".

Life

After attending the Old St Nicholas School in Leipzig, he studied theology at the Leipzig University. 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:

Komparative Darstellung des Lehrbegriffs der verschiedenen christlichen Kirchenpartheien.
Biblisches Realwörterbuch - Biblical dictionary.
Grammatik des biblischen und targumischen Chaldaismus.
Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Theologie - Handbook of theological literature.