Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher
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Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (12 February 1845, Göttingen-9 March 1923, Dresden) was a German classical scholar. He is best known for his Lexicon, the Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie. He also published Neue Omphalosstudien: Ein Archaologischer Beitrag zur Vergleichenden Religions-Wissenschaft (1915), an archaeological study of the omphalos myth.
The economist Wilhelm Georg Friedrich Roscher was his father.
