# Birgit Meyer

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{{Short description|German professor of religious studies}}
thumb|Birgit Meyer (2015)
'''Birgit Meyer''' (born 21 March 1960) is a German<ref>{{cite web |author= |url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/10293919.html |title=Million-euro award for Birgit Meyer |publisher=Alexander von Humboldt Foundation |date=8 May 2015 |accessdate=17 November 2015 |archive-date=14 December 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214101030/https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/10293919.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> professor of religious studies at [Utrecht University](/source/Utrecht_University).

==Career==
<blockquote>The idea of the single, white researcher getting into a world foreign to her is outdated, I think.<ref>[https://entangledworlds.utoronto.ca/index.php/interview-with-dr-birgit-meyer/ University of Toronto: Interview with Birgit Meyer]</ref></blockquote>
Meyer was born on 21 March 1960 in [Emden](/source/Emden), Germany.<ref name=uu>{{cite web|author= |url=https://profs.library.uu.nl/index.php/profrec/getprofdata/2640/6/8/0 |title=Prof.dr. B. Meyer (1960 - ) |language=Dutch |publisher=Utrecht University |date= |accessdate=4 April 2016}}</ref> She studied comparative religion, pedagogy, and cultural anthropology at the [University of Bremen](/source/University_of_Bremen) and the [University of Amsterdam](/source/University_of_Amsterdam). She earned her [PhD](/source/Doctor_of_Philosophy) at the latter university in 1995 under doctoral advisors J. Fabian and [H.U.E. Thoden van Velzen](/source/Bonno_Thoden_van_Velzen), with a thesis titled: ''Translating the Devil. An African Appropriation of Pietist Protestantism. The Case of the Peki Ewe, 1847–1992''. She was appointed as professor of religious studies at [Utrecht University](/source/Utrecht_University) in 2011. She previously spent over 20 years living in Ghana studying [Pentecostalism](/source/Pentecostalism) and religious change.<ref name=uu/>

Meyer has been a member of the [Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) since 2007.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.knaw.nl/nl/leden/leden/7402 |title=Birgit Meyer |language=Dutch |publisher=[Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences](/source/Royal_Netherlands_Academy_of_Arts_and_Sciences) |date= |accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> In 2012 she received the Anneliese Maier Award by the Humboldt Foundation.<ref>[https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/entdecken/newsroom/dossier-anneliese-maier-research-award/anneliese-maier-research-award-winners-2012 Anneliese Maier Award Winners 2012.] Retrieved 30 May 2025.</ref> In April 2015 Meyer won the Academy Professors Prize of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a 1 million euro grant.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/4035795/prijs-tophoogleraren-meyer-en-dekker.html |title=Prijs voor tophoogleraren Meyer en Dekker  |language=Dutch |publisher=[NU.nl](/source/NU.nl) |date=22 April 2015 |accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref> In 2015 she was one of four winners of the Dutch [Spinoza Prize](/source/Spinoza_Prize) and received a 2.5 million euro grant.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.nwo.nl/actueel/nieuws/2015/nwo-spinozapremies-voor-rene-janssen-birgit-meyer-aad-van-der-vaart-en-cisca-wijmenga.html |title=NWO-Spinozapremies voor René Janssen, Birgit Meyer, Aad van der Vaart en Cisca Wijmenga |language=Dutch |publisher=[Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research](/source/Netherlands_Organisation_for_Scientific_Research) |date=12 June 2015 |accessdate=12 June 2015}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.uu.nl/hum/staff/bmeyer Profile at Utrecht University]
* [https://www.uu.nl/medewerkers/BMeyer Research Website ''Religious Matters'']

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