Emil Rödiger [SEP] date of death
Emil Rödiger
Emil Rödiger (13 October 1801, in Sangerhausen – 15 June 1874) was a German orientalist.
He studied philosophy and theology at the University of Halle, where in 1830, he became an associate professor of Oriental languages, followed by a full professorship in 1835. He moved to Berlin in 1860, and remained there for the rest of his life.
He published a new edition of Lokman's "Fables" (1830); "Syrische Crestomathie" (1838); and "Himjaritische Schriftmonumentie
number of English translations, including an 1853 edition edited by Samuel Prideaux Tregelles and a 1907 edition revised by Francis Brown, Samuel Rolles Driver and Charles A. Briggs As indicated by the title pages, the German editions of these works were carried forward by several revised editions, after Gesenius's death, by other scholars, most conspicuously Emil Rödiger, into the 20th century.
Edward Robinson, an acquaintance of Gesenius, and his principal English translator and biographer, said of him, " So clear were his own conception, that