Rosenmüller, JOHANN GEORG

Rosenmüller, JOHANN GEORG, a German theologian and eloquent preacher, was born at Ummerstadt near Hildburghausen, 18th December 1736, studied in Altdorf, and filled chairs at Erlangen (1773), Giessen (1783), and Leipzig (1785), where he died, 14th March 1815. He published about 100 books of great popularity. Of these the most important was Scholia in Novum Testamentum (6th ed. by his son 1815-31).—ERNST FRIEDRICH KARL, eldest son of the foregoing, was a distinguished biblical critic and Orientalist. He was born at Hessberg near Hildburghausen, 10th December 1768, studied at Königsberg, Giessen, and Leipzig, became extra-ordinary professor of Oriental Literature at the last in 1795, ordinary professor in 1813, and died 17th September 1835. His Institutiones ad fund. ling. Arab. (1818) and Analecta Arabica (3 vols. 1824-27) were of great importance; his masterpiece, the Scholia in Vetus Testamentum (11 parts in 23 vols. 1788-1835), still retains no small part of its value. Other works are Handbuch für bibl. Kritik und Exegese (1797-1800), Das alte und neue Morgenland (1816-20), Handbuch der biblischen Alterthumskunde (4 vols. 1823-31).—A younger brother, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1771-1820), was twenty years a professor of Anatomy and Surgery at Leipzig, and wrote on anatomy.