Georg Gustav Roskoff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georg Gustav Roskoff

Austrian theologian

Date of Birth: 31-Aug-1814

Place of Birth: Bratislava, Bratislava Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 20-Oct-1889

Profession: theologian, university teacher

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Georg Gustav Roskoff (1814–1889) was an Austrian theologian, professor of Old Testament exegesis at Vienna University from 1850 to 1884. His main work deals with the historical development of dualism in which he traces the figure of the Devil in human thought from the beginnings until his own time.
His History of the Devil (1869) is still considered a standard work on the topic, although it has been criticized for repeating Gottfried Christian Voigt's unrealistic figure of nine million victims of the Early Modern witch-trials.