Edward Robinson (Scholar)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward Robinson (1794-1863) was an American biblical scholar, known as the "Father of Biblical Geography". He has also been referred to as the "founder of modern Palestinology". Robinson was born at Southington, Conn. He graduated at Hamilton College, Clifton, N. Y., in 1816, studied at Andover, Mass., and in Europe at Halle and Berlin. On his return to the United States he was made professor extraordinary of sacred literature at Andover. Robinson was the founder of the Biblical Repository (1831) and he established the Bibliotheca Sacra (1843). Illness caused him to move to New York City where he was professor of biblical literature in Union Theological Seminary from 1837 until his death.