Bible Encyclopedias
Roos, Johann Friedrich

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

only son of the following, was born in 1759, and died in 1828, at Marbach, where he had held the position of dean. He wrote a History of the Reformation and a Church History, neither of which was based on original sources, and both of which have been superseded by more modern works. See Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v.