Reinhard Breymayer (4 January 1944 – 13 August 2017)[1] was a German philologist, researcher into pietism and specialist on the history of rhetoric.
[3] Breymayer was born in Urach, a small town in the hilly countryside between Stuttgart and Ulm.
He received his Magister ("Master of Arts") degree from the University of Bonn in 1971, reflecting his studies in Germanistics, Indogerman and Slavonic language sciences and General Rhetoric.
[3] Since 1989 he has held a contract for teaching General Rhetoric at the Eberhard-Karl's University of Tübingen, and since 1996 he has been "Germany correspondent" for the Thessaloniki based ADAMAS Götz Hübner Intercultural Studies Foundation in Schorndorf.
[2] In total, Breymayer has authored more than 200 published works, concentrating on pietism, rhetoric and German-language philology.