ROSENMULLER, JOHANN GEORG, a German divine and professor of theology was b. at Ummerstadt in Hildburgimusen, Dec. 18, 1736. He was appointed orofessor of the ology at Erlangen in 1773. primarius professor of divinity at Giessen in 1783, and was called in 1765 to Leipsic, where be remained till his death in 1815. Ills clikf writings arc: .3Iorgen-und Abendandachten (7th ed. Leip. 1820); Betrachtungen fiber cite Vornehmsten 1Vahrheiten der Religion auf alle Tage des Jahres (4 vols. Lcip. 1E01); Auserlcsenes Beicht und Communionbuch (12th ed. Numb. 1827); Predigtenfther Auserlesene &ellen der Heiligen :Schrfft (3 vols. Leip. 1S11-13); Beitrage cur Homiletik, (Leip. 1E14); Scholia in Novum Testamentum (6 vols.; 6th edit. by his son, E. F. K. RosenmUller, Leip. 1S15-31); and his Historia Intexpretationis Lihrorum Sacrorunc in Ecelesia Chrigiana (5 vols. Leip. 1795-1814). After his death appeared Handbuch, eines Allgemeines fassliehen Unterrichts in der Christlichen Glaubens- and Sittenlehre (2 vols. Lcip. 1818-19).—EuxsT FRIEDRICH KARL ROSEN3ItILLER, eldest son of the foregoing, distinguished himself as a biblical critic and orientalist. He was born at Hessberg in Dec. 10, 1768,
studied at Leipsic, became extraordinary professor of oriental literature iu 1195, ordinary .professor in 1813, and died Sept. 17, 1835. He was a more accurate and solid scholar and a keener critic than his father. He shared the rationalism of his time. Lot never carried it to an extreme. His masterpiece, the Scholia in Veins Testamentum (11 vols. 'Leip. 1788-1835), is a most comprehensive and learned production, well worthy of con sultation on any important point of biblical criticism. Other works of Losennifiller's are: Handbuch fur die Literatu 7' der Biblischen Kritikund Exegese (4 vols. Gott. 1797-1800); Das Alte and lreve 1Tforgenland oder Erlduterungen der Ileiligen Schrift (6 vols. Leip. 1818-20); Handbuch der Diblischen Alterthuinskunde (4 vols. Leip. Institutiones ad Fundamenta Lingua? Arabiea (Leip. 1818); and Analecbi Arab;ca („t1 vols. Leip. 1825-26).—A younger brother, JOHANN Crtnisrixx ROSENISIULLER (h. 1771, d. 1S20), also acquired a reputation as a writer on anatomy, etc. •