Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller (December 10, 1768 – September 17, 1835) was a German Orientalist and Protestant theologian born in Heßberg, which is now a part of Veilsdorf in the District of Hildburghausen, Thuringia.

Rosenmüller was a student at the Universities of Erlangen, Giessen and Leipzig, and at Leipzig studied under his father, theologian Johann Georg Rosenmüller (1736-1815). In 1796 he became an associate professor in Arabic studies at Leipzig, where in 1813 he was appointed professor of Oriental languages.

Commemorative plaque for Ernst Friedrich Karl and Johann Georg Rosenmüller at Alter Johannisfriedhof, Leipzig.

Rosenmüller was the author of a major exegetical work on the Old Testament entitled Scholia in Vetus Testamentum. This work consisted of 24 parts and its publication spanned several decades (1788–1835), with a five-volume abridged edition also published in 1835. He also published editions of Samuel Bochart's Hierozoicon (1793–96) and Robert Lowth's treatise on Hebrew poetry, De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum Praelectiones Academicae (1815).

Selected publications

• Die Sitten der Beduinen-Araber: mit einem biblisch-zoologischen Anhang des Uebersetzers (The customs of Bedouin Arabs, with Biblical-zoological addendum); (source: Laurent d'Arvieux); (1789)
• Handbuch für die Literatur der biblischen Kritik und Exegese (Manual for literature of Biblical criticism and exegesis), (1797)
• Biblisch-exegetisches Repertorium, oder die neuesten Fortschritte in Erklärung der heiligen Schrift (Biblical-exegetical repertory, or the latest advances in explanation of the Holy Scriptures); (with Georg Hieronymus Rosenmüller, 1822-1824)
• Handbuch der biblischen Alterthumskunde (Textbook of Biblical archaeology), (1823-1830)
• Analecta Arabica, (3 volumes 1824-27)
• Biblische Erd- und Länderkunde: mit einer Charte und vier lithographischen Abbildungen (Biblical earth and area studies: with a map and four lithographic illustrations), 1823
• Das biblische Mineral- und Pflanzenreich (The Biblical mineral and plant kingdom), 1830
• Biblische Naturgeschichte (Biblical natural history), 1830-1831
• Das biblische Thierreich (The Biblical animal kingdom), (1831)
• Scholia in Vetus Testamentum (24 parts, 1788-1835)

References

• [1] biography @ Jewish Encyclopedia
• "Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia".