Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller

Who was Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller?

Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller was a German Orientalist and theologian who was 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. 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. He also published editions of Samuel Bochart's Hierozoicon and Robert Lowth's treatise on Hebrew poetry, De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum Praelectiones Academicae.