Emil Rödiger
Emil Rödiger 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. He moved to Berlin in 1860, and remained there for the rest of his life.
In 1870 he received a combined medal in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.
He published a new edition of Lokman's Fables ; Syrische Crestomathie ; and Versuch über die Himjaritischen Schriftmonumente. After the death of Wilhelm Gesenius, he finished his Thesaurus Linguae Hebraicae, and edited his Hebrew grammar from the 14th to the 21st edition.
