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==Biography==
Neander was born at [[Göttingen]] as '''David Mendel'''. His father, Emmanuel Mendel, is said to have been a [[Jew]]ish [[Peddler|pedlar]], but August adopted the name of Neander on his baptism as a [[Protestantism|Protestant Christian]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=CONVERTS TO CHRISTIANITY, MODERN - JewishEncyclopedia.com|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/4636-converts-to-christianity-modern|access-date=2021-04-29|website=www.jewishencyclopedia.com}}</ref> While still very young, he moved with his mother to [[Hamburg]]. From the [[grammar school]] (''Johanneum'') he passed to the [[gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]], where the study of [[Plato]] appears especially to have engrossed him. Considerable interest attaches to his early companionship with [[Wilhelm Neumann]] and certain others, among whom were the writer [[Karl August Varnhagen von Ense]] and the poet [[Adelbert von Chamisso]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Neander, Johann August Wilhelm|volume=19|page=321}}</ref>
Baptized on 25 February 1806, Neander went to [[University of Halle|Halle]] to study divinity at the age of 17. [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]] was then lecturing at Halle. Neander found in him the inspiration he needed, while Schleiermacher found a congenial pupil; one destined to propagate his views in a higher and more effective Christian form. Before the end of that year, the events of the [[War of the Fourth Coalition]] forced Neander to move to [[University of Göttingen|Göttingen]]. There he continued his studies, made himself an expert on Plato and [[Plutarch]], and became especially advanced in theology under the venerable [[Gottlieb Jakob Planck|GJ Planck]]. The impulse communicated by Schleiermacher was confirmed by Planck, and Neander seems now to have realized that the original investigation of Christian history was to form the great work of his life.<ref name="EB1911"/>
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