ROSENMÜLLER, Ernst Friedrich Karl. Heßberg bei Hildburghausen 10.12.1768 — Leipzig 17.9.1835. German Arabist and Protestant Theologian. Son of Johann Georg R. (1736–1815), a minister and rationalist theologian. Gymnasium in Giessen, studies at Leipzig, Ph.D. 1788.  PD 1792, in 1796-1813 ao. Professor of Arabic, 1813-35 ord. Professor of Oriental Languages at Leipzig. Also gave a “Kolleg über indische Studien” in 1829-35 (Rabault-Feuerham 2008). Hon. Dr.theol. 1817 Halle.

Publications: Much on Arabic and on the Bible, often large surveys of earlier work.

– De versione Pentateuchi Persica commentatio. Lipsiae 1813.

– Handbuch der biblischen Altertumskunde. 1. Biblische Erd- und Länderkunde. 1-2. 358+346 p. 1823-24, English transl. by N. Morren as The Biblical Geography of Central Asia. 1-2. Edinburgh 1836-37 (beginning with the location of the Garden of Eden).

Sources: C. Siegfried, A.D.B. 29, 1889, 215-217; Wikipedia.