Johann Friedrich von Meyer
Johann Friedrich von Meyer was a senator of Frankfurt, who published a translation of the Bible in 1819.
He studied law at the University of Göttingen and attended lectures on philosophy and natural sciences at Leipzig University. In 1799 he became a trainee at the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar, and in 1807 was appointed to the Stadtgerichtsrat in Frankfurt. On three separate occasions he served as alteren bürgermeister, and from 1837 was a representative of the four Freien Städte to the German Bundestag.
In 1816 he founded the Frankfurt Bible Society.
