Heinrich August Eduard Meyer (1813 - 1862)

Born 5 Mar 1813 in Berlin, Brandenburg, Prussia

Husband of Friedericke Wilhelmine (Sternicke) Meyer — married 4 Mar 1838 in Dresden, Germany

Descendants

Died 17 Dec 1862 at age 49 in Bethany, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Heinrich August Eduard Meyer

1813 Heinrich August Eduard Meyer born 5 May in Berlin.

1833-36 Attends Jänicke's Mission Seminary in Berlin July 1833‒October 1836.

1837-9 Attends the DMS seminary in Dresden followed by Tamil studies at Erlangen University.

1840 Ordained on 26 February and commissioned on 2 March with Klose.

Marries Friederike Wilhelmine Sternicke 4 March.

Arrives in South Australia 10 August on the Caleb Angas.

Settles at Encounter Bay 13 September.

Starts a short-lived open-air school October 1840.

1841 Starts a school at ‘Government House,' Encounter Bay, 5 December.

1843 Granted a lease of 20 acres of (poor) land to teach Ramindjeri to farm.

Given 2 acres by Moorhouse on which to build a house and school.

Meyer's Ramindjeri vocabulary and grammar published in May.

1843-48 Meyer farms with some Ramindjeri people.

1844 Meyer's new school-house and chapel opened 27 October. Uses Ramindjeri and English.

1846 Missionaries decide to focus work on two locations, Adelaide and Encounter Bay. Schürmann joins Meyer at Encounter Bay March 1846.

Meyer publishes Manners and Customs of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribes.

In September the missionaries decide to relinquish aid from the DMS.

Meyer's school closes late 1846.

1847 Adelaide Anglican Diocese established under Bishop Short.

1848 Lutheran Mission in South Australia closed.

Meyer accepts a call as pastor at Bethany, SA.

1851-61 Meyer the first President of the Bethany-Lobethal Synod (later the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia or ELSA).

1851-60 Organises eleven new Lutheran congregations.

1862 Meyer dies aged 49. Buried at Bethany.

1889 Wilhelmine Meyer dies.

Immigration

MEYER Heinrich August Eduard, Friederike Wilhelmine STERNEKE arrived in SA 1840-08-08 aboard Caleb Angas from London 40-04-09^[1]

Death

Heinrich August Eduard MEYER

Death Date: 17 Dec 1862

Gender: M

Age: 49y Approx. Birth Year: 1813

Marital Status: N

Residence: Bethany

Death Place: District: Angaston

Symbol: Book/Page: 14/366^[2]

• Cemetery

Given Name(s): Heinrich August Eduard Surname: MEYER Death Date: 17 Dec 1862 Cemetery: Bethany Pioneer Notes: Born 5 Mar 1813 Berlin comma Lutheran Pastor Bethany^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ http://www.familyhistorysa.org//shipping/passengerlists.html
2. ↑ https://www.genealogysa.org.au/i
3. ↑ https://www.genealogysa.org.au/i

• Strempel Family History by Robert F Condon. 1991 ISBN 0 646 12831 6
• https://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/84754/8/02whole.pdf The two Kingdoms