Edward Robinson (scholar)

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Edward Robinson (1794-1863) was an American biblical scholar, born at Southington, Conn. He graduated at Hamilton College, Clifton, N. Y., in 1816, studied at Andover, Mass., and in Europe at Halle and Berlin. On his return to the United States he was made professor extraordinary of sacred literature at Andover.

Illness caused him to move to Boston where he was professor of biblical literature in Union Theological Seminary from 1837 until his death. He traveled in Palestine in 1838 in the company of Rev. Eli Smith, after which Robinson composed Biblical Researches in Palestine and Adjacent Countries (three volumes, Boston and London, 1841; German edition, Halle, 1841; second edition, enlarged, 1856). The work gained for him the Gold Medal of the Royal Geographical Society (1842).

Professor Robinson edited and translated Buttmann's Greek Grammar (1823; third edition, 1851); Winer's Grammar of New Testament Greek (1825), with Moses Stuart; Wahl's Clavis Phologica Novi Testamenti (1825); Gesenius' Hebrew Lexicon (1836; fifth edition, 1854); Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament (1836; second edition, 1847); Greek Harmony of the Gospels (1845; second edition, 1851); English Harmony of the Gospels (1846). Professor Robinson was the founder of the Biblical Repository (1831) and he established the Bibliotheca Sacra (1843).

[edit] Publications

• R. D. Hitchcock, The Life, Writings, and Character of Edward Robinson (New York, 1863)