Meder was born in Wasungen, Thuringia to a musical family with his father and four brothers all being organists or Kantors.
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After being briefly employed as Kantor at the cathedral at Königsberg (now Chojna, Poland), he went in 1700 to Riga, where he served as Kantor until his death in 1719.
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