Reinhard Breymayer

Reinhard Breymayer (4 January 1944 – 13 August 2017) was a German philologist, researcher into pietism and specialist on the history of rhetoric. His published output is considerable.

Life Early years Breymayer was born in Urach, a small town in the hilly countryside between Stuttgart and Ulm. He grew up in nearby Unterweissach and Hülben, and attended the Evangelical Seminaries of Maulbronn and Blaubeuren. These were secondary schools with an unusually intensive focus on classical and humanistic education. He passed his school leaving exams (Abitur) in 1963, which opened the way to university level education. He studied successively at the universities of Tübingen, Cologne, Bonn and Bochum. Between 1964 and 1967 he was supported in a philology scholarship from the Evangelical "Stift" of Tübingen, a prestigious (protestant) seminary. 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. also in 1972 involved as co-publisher of volumes 1 and 3 in the series Forum Theologiae Linguisticae. Interdisziplinäre Schriftenreihe für Theologie und Linguistik. Between 1982 and 2000 he was part of the editorial committee for the journal Aries (Paris-Sorbonne). In 1992 he became a producer of the annual news journal .