ROBINSON, Rev. EDWARD, D.D., LL.D., philologist and biblical scholar, was b. at Southington, Conn. April 10, 1794, graduated at Hamilton college, Clinton, in the state of New York, in 1816, where he was engaged as tutor and in pursuing his studies until; 1821, when he went to Andover, Mass., to superintend the printing of an edition of the rfirst six books of the Iliad, previous to which he had married, and become a widower. lie studied Hebrew with prof. Stuart at Andover, to whom he became an assistant pro fessor. In 1826 he began four years' travel and study in Europe, where lie married Miss Therese A. L. von Jakob, 'daughter of a professor at Halle. Returning in 1830 to Andover, he was appointed extraordinary professor of sacred literature, and librarian, but resigned in 1834, removed to Boston, and in 1837 was appointed professor of literature in the Union theological seminary, city of New York. At this period he made, in company with rev. Eli Smith, an extensive survey of Palestine, of which
he gave an account in his admirable work, entitled Biblical Researches in Palestine and Adjacent Countries (3 vols. 8vo, Halle, London, and Boston, 1841)—which will always remain a standard work on the subject. lie entered upon the active duties of his pro fessorship in 1840; and in 1852 made a second visit to Palestine, of which he published an account in 1856. His other works arc a translation of Buttman's Greek Grammar, 1832 and 1850; Greek and English Lexicon of the New Testament, 1836 and 1850. Harmony of the Four Gospels, in Greek, 1845, and in English, 1846. He was also edito of the Biblical Repository, Bibliotheca Sacra, Calmet's Bible Dictionary, a translation of Gesenius's Hebrew Lexicon, etc., and was an active member of geographical, oriental, -and ethnological societies. He died in 1864.