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Ernst Friedrich Karl Rosenmüller (1768‒1835) was a German Orientalist and theologian. He was born in Hesselberg, Bavaria, and studied in Erlangen, Giessen, and in Leipzig under his father Johann Georg, also a theologian. The younger Rosenmüller became professor of Arabic and Oriental languages at Leipzig, where he devoted many years to his colossal, 24-part collection, Scholia in Vetus Testamentum, a major exegetical work on the Old Testament. The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phœnicia, and Arabia is a translation from the German of volume 34 of Rosenmüller’s Biblical ...