His father was headmaster and priest Edvard Offesen Meyer (1713–1760); his mother is not known.
Like many members of the Norwegian Society, Meyer also wrote poems, but these have not stood the test of time, according to professor and literary historian Harald Noreng.
In December 1779, he married Susanne Fredrikke Hansen (1761–1785), daughter of a merchant in Holmestrand.
He wrote of the city's long history as well as its contemporary situation, and proposed the establishment of a Norwegian university in Tønsberg—however, this was first printed in 1822, eleven years after the Royal Frederick University was established in Christiania.
Meyer would not live to see this happen; in 1790 he was promoted to presiding judge of Tønsberg and Fredrikstad, and to assessor of the court trial in Christiania in the same year.