Edward Robinson (scholar)

Edward Robinson ( born April 10, 1794 in Southington, Connecticut, United States, † January 27, 1863 in New York ) was a Protestant theologian and researcher of Palestine.

Robinson was a professor from 1830 biblical exegesis in the Andover Theological Seminary in Boston, and in 1837 at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In his research stays 1837-1839 and 1852 recorded in Palestine and he appointed one of the first scientists of the modern era, a large number of archaeological relics. So he developed a method to identify the places mentioned in the Old Testament and, among other rules, the third wall of Jerusalem. Robinson is considered the founder of modern scientific topography of Palestine.