Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller

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

He 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.

Rosenmüller was the author of a major exegetical work on the Old Testament titled Scholia in Vetus Testamentum. This work consisted of 24 parts and its publication spanned several decades (1788-1835). He also published editions of Samuel Bochart's Hierozoicon (1796) 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 article from the German Wikipedia.