Early Life
Meinardus was born in Hamburg in 1925, where he received his secondary schooling. He studied theology and sociology in Hamburg, London, St Louis, Chicago, and at Harvard University, Boston, where he obtained his PhD. Dr. Meinardus was a professor at the American University in Cairo (AUC) from 1956 till 1968, and pastor of the Maadi Community Church (MCC) in Cairo, Egypt.
Meinardus befriended the Coptic monk Father Antonius, who later on became Pope Shenouda III (1971-2012)], the head of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Dr. Meinardus became an active member of several research institutions for Coptic studies in Cairo.
Meinardus was, with other non-Egyptian faculty at the American University in Cairo, expelled from Egypt shortly before the Six-day War of 1967. He served as pastor in several other countries and returned to Germany in 1975 were he became pastor and later professor in Middle Eastern Religions at the University of Hamburg.
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