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.[1] He moved to Berlin in 1860, and remained there for the rest of his life.

Medal Brockhaus, Fleischer, Pott, Roediger 1870

In 1870 he received a combined medal (together with (Brockhaus, Pott and Fleischer) in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.[2]

He published a new edition of Lokman's Fables (1830); Syrische Crestomathie (1838); and Versuch über die Himjaritischen Schriftmonumente (1841). After the death of Wilhelm Gesenius (1786-1842), he finished his Thesaurus Linguae Hebraicae, and edited his Hebrew grammar from the 14th (1845) to the 21st edition (1874).

References
  • This article incorporates text from the International Cyclopedia of 1890, a publication now in the public domain.
  1. The Athenaeum (biography)
  2. http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek und M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zur online-Ausstellung im Digitalen Münzkabinett des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen, in: S. Krmnicek (Hrsg.), Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm. Neue Serie Bd. 3 (Tübingen 2020), 35-37.
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