August Klostermann

August Heinrich Klostermann (16 May 1837, Steinhude, Schaumburg-Lippe – 11 February 1915, Kiel) was a German Lutheran theologian.

He was the father of New Testament scholar Erich Klostermann (1870–1963).

[1] He studied at Erlangen University and Berlin (1855–58).

He was assistant pastor in Bückeburg (1859–64), and then tutor (German: repetent) and lecturer (German: privatdozent) at Göttingen (1864–68).

In 1868, he became professor of Old Testament exegesis at Kiel.