Otto Mejer


Otto Karl Alexander Mejer was a German canon law specialist and church historian.
He studied law at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Jena, receiving his doctorate at Göttingen in 1841. While a student in Berlin, he was deeply influenced by the teachings of Friedrich Carl von Savigny. Not long after graduation, he became a lecturer at Göttingen, and in 1845/46 took an extended study trip to Rome.
In 1847 he became a full professor of law at the University of Königsberg, which was followed by professorships at Greifswald and Rostock. In 1874 he returned as a professor to Göttingen, where he taught classes until his retirement in 1883. From 1885 to 1893 he was president of the State Consistory at the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover, then the highest-ranking office of the church.

Principal works

He was also the author of 14 articles in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.