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.

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).