ROBINSON, EDWARD, D.D., was born at Southington, Cormecticut, in 1794. He studied at Hamilton College, New York, and at Andover, Massachusetts ; at the latter of which he became assistant professor of Biblical literature in 1821. In 1826 he visited Europe, and spent some time at Paris, Halle, and Berlin, in the prosecution of the study of the Oriental languages and theology. On his return, in 1830, to America, he resumed his duties at Andover, and some time after became professor of Biblical literature at New York. In 1838 he commenced his travels in the East, the account of which appeared in his Biblical Re searches in Palestine, Mount Sinai, and Arabia Pctraa, 3 vols. 8vo, Lond. 1841, a work which supplies the most valuable contribution that modem learning and enterprise have made to our know ledge of Biblical geography and topography. A second exploration of the Holy Land was made by him in 1851, the result of which he published under the title of Later Biblical Researches in Palestine, Lond. 1856. The design of both these
joumeys was to collect materials for a systematic work on the physical and historical geography of the Holy Land. On this the author was engaged at the time of his death. It has since been pub lished so far as completed, Lond. z 865. • Besides these works, Dr. Robinson published a translation Buttmann's Larger Greek Graninzar, [833; and of Gesenius's Heb. and Chald. Lexicon, 1836 ; a work which, in the 5th edit. (1854), was largely Improved from various sources, especially the Thesaurus of Gesenius. He issued also A Har mony of the Four Gospels in Greek, 1834 ; and wrote numerous articles in the Bibliotheca Sacra, of which he was the founder. He died in 1864- W. L. A.