Wilhelm Heinrich Neuser

Wilhelm Heinrich Neuser (born 13 June 1926 in Siegen; died 25 June 2010 in Münster)[1] was a German Protestant theologian, church historian, professor and a leading scholar in John Calvin research,[2] a founder of International Congress on Calvin Research.

[3] Neuser, a son of the Evangelical Reformed pastor and later Superintendent Wilhelm Neuser, studied after graduating from the Protestant Theology at the Georg August University of Göttingen, University of Basel and at the Church College Bethel.

In 1960 he received his habilitation at the Protestant Theological Faculty of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.

[4] In 1996, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, a commemorative publication by Jürgen Kampmann was titled Aus dem Land der Synoden.

In addition, in 2005 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein.