Carl Adolf Rosenberg (1850 – 1906) was a German theater critic and art historian.
Rosenberg was born as the son of a Prussian merchant in Bydgoszcz and attended secondary school in Berlin and Cologne.
He studied classics and archeology at the University of Berlin.
[1] After completing his doctorate on the Furies, he undertook study trips to places in Germany, Austria, Italy, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
He became a prolific writer on the arts and is known best for his illustrated biographies and catalogs on Rubens, Rembrandt and other artists.