August Friedrich Otto Münchmeyer was a Germanneo-Lutheranpastor. He was born inHanover on 8 December 1807 and he died inBuer (10 miles northEssen),Münster on 7 November 1882.
He studied atLüneburg,Holzminden,Göttingen, Berlin, and at the preachers' seminary inHanover. In 1840 he was appointed pastor atLamspringe, nearHildesheim; in 1851,superintendent at Catlenburg; and in 1855,consistorial councilor and superintendent at Buer, and member of the ecclesiastical court ofOsnabrück.
He was a zealous advocate of the complete separation ofState andChurch, which he supported in theZeitschrift für Protestantismus und Kirche, and in theGöttinger Monatsschrift (1846-1847). He engaged in a controversy withHöfling over the latter'sGrundsätze evangelisch-lutherischer Kirchenverfassung, to refute which he publishedDas Amt des Neuen Testaments nach Lehre der Schrift und der lutherischen Bekenntnisse (Osterode, n.d.). He was also the author ofDas Dogma von der sichtbaren und unsichtbaren Kirche (Göttingen, 1854).
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