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Agra in 1664. Roth shares with the Jesuit, Hanxle-
den, the fame of being among Europeans the pioneer
Sanskrit scholar, and of having compiled the first
Sanskrit grammar (Wiener, Zeitschr. fiir die Kunde
des Morgenlandes, XV, 1901, pp. 303-320). " During
his stay in Agra, he succeeded in persuading some
Brahmins to teach him Sanskrit and, after six years
of diligent study, he obtained complete mastery of this
difficult tongue. He was the author of the interest-
ing description of the Sanskrit alphabet, published by
Athanasius Kircher in his China illustrata" (Max
Miiller, "Lectures on the Science of Language", Lon-
don, 1866, p. 277). Roth's works, most of which were
published by his learned friend, Athanasius Kircher,
S.J., are: "Relatio rerum
notabiUum Regni Mogor in
Asia", which contains the
first information concern-
ing Kabul which had reached
Europe (Straubing, 1 ()(>.'),
Aschaffenburg, 166S); "Iter
ex Agra Mogorum in Euro-
pam ex relatione PP. Joh.
Gruberi et H. Roth" in Kir-
cher, "China illustrata"
(Amsterdam, 1667), pp. 91
sqq.; "Itinerarium St.
Thomse Apost. ex Juda-a
in Indiam", and "Dogmata
varia fabulossissima Brach-
manorum", ib., 156-162;
" Exactissimum opus totius
grammaticae Brachmanicac
cujus et rudimentais [Roth]
primus Europaj comniuni-
cavit" in "Romani Collcfiii
S.J. musseum" (Amst(M-il;mi,
1678), p. 65; a letter (Rome,
1664) in " Welt-Bott ", I
(Augsburg, 1726), 35; manu-
script-letters and relations
in Royal Library, Brussels,
Nos. 6828-29, fol. 415.
HosTEN, Jesuit Missionaries in Northern India, 1380-1803 (Cal- cutta, 1906), 30 sqq.; Balfour, Encycl. of India (London, 1885), a. v.; Benfey, Gesch. der Sprachwis- senschaft (Munich, 1869), 335; V. ScHLEGEL, Sprache u. Weisheit der India- (Heidelberg, 1808), p. xi.
Anthony Huonder.
Rothe, David, Bishop of
Ossory (Ireland), b. at Kil-
kenny in 1573, of a distin-
guished family; d. 20 .\pril,
1650. Having studied at
the Irish College, Douai, and at the University of
Salamanca, where he graduated doctor in civil and
canon law, he was ordained in 1600, and proceeded to
Rome. From 1601 to 1609 he was professor of theol-
ogy and secretary to Archbishop Lombard, and on 15
June, 1609, was appointed Vice-Primate of Armagh.
He arrived in Ireland in 1610, having been made pro-
thonotary Apostolic, and held a synod for the Ulster
Province at Drogheda, in February, 1614, and a
second synod in 1618. Though appointed Bishop of
Ossory on 10 October, 1618, he had, owing to the
severity of the penal laws, to seek consecration in
Paris, where he was consecrated early in 1620; he
returned to Ireland in the winter of 1621. As early
as 1616, Dr. Rothe had published the first part of his
famous "Analecta" and the completed work was
issued at Cologne (1617-19); a new edition was
brought out by Cardinal Moran in 1884. In 1620
he published "Brigida Thaumaturga", at Paris, fol-
lowed by " Hiberniae sive Antiquioris Scotiae " in 1621
at Antwerp, and "Hibernia Resurgens" at Paris,
in the same year. Other works of his except some
few fragments have long since disappeared. In
1624 Bishop Rothe presided over a synod at Kil-
kenny, and he laboured zealously for religion and
country during a trying period. He joined the Con-
federates in 1642, and welcomed the papal nuncio,
Rinuccini, to Kilkenny, on 14 November, 1645.
Unfortunately, three years later, he refused to ac-
knowledge the validity of the censures issued by
Rinuccini, believing that the Supreme Council were
acting in the best interests of the country. Although
seriously ill in 1649, he continued to minister to the
plague-stricken citizens of Kilkenny. He was com-
pelled bv the Cromwellians to leave his episcopal
city 28 March, 1650, but,
being robbed on the way, he
was permitted to return.
His remains were interred
in St. Mary's Church, but
there is a cenotaph to his
memory in St. Canice's
Cathedral.
Lynch, De pra-sulibus Hiberniae (1672); Ware, De prcesuiibus Hi- bernia (Dublin, 1665); Meehan, Franciscan Monasteries (Dublin, 1872); Mohan, Spicilegium Os- soriense (Dublin, 1874-84) ; Car- RiGAN, History of Ossory (Dublin, 1905) ; Report on Franciscan MSS. in Hist. MSS. Com. (Dublin, 1906).
W. H. Grattan-Flood.
Rottenburg, Diocese of
(Rottenbdrgensis), suffra- gan of the ecclesiastical Province of the Upper Rhine. It embraces the Kingdom of WUrtemberg, three parishes in the Grand Duchy of Ba- den, and one parish in the Prussian territory of Hohen- zoUern - Sigmaringen. The diocese is divided into 29 deaneries, and in 1911 con- tained 698 parishes, 19 F'farrkuratien (incorporated churches with an indepen- dent care of souls), 164 chap- laincies, and 155 other pas- toral charges; 1084 active and 75 pensioned secular clergy; and 728,000 Catho- lics. The cathedral chapter, which enjoys the right of electing the bishops, consists of a cathedral dean and vicar- general, six capitulars, and six cathedral prebendaries. The bishop, cathedral dean, and the six capitulars constitute also the or- dinariate; the legal adviser of the ordinariate is the syndicus, a lay official who is likewise director of the chancellery of the ordinariate, consisting of six mem- bers. The rights of the State circa sacra are entrusted to a royal Catholic church council, which is composed of a director, two clerical, and several lay members. The diocesan institutions are: the priests' seminary at Rottenburg, with a regent, viceregent, and a Repetent, or private tutor ; the theological college ' ' Wilhelmsstif t" at Tubingen with a director and 7 Repelenten, supported by the State, and placed under the supervision of the bishop and church council; the gymnasia-1 boarding- schools at Ehingen and Rottweil, also maintained by the St ate : the diocesan boys' seminaries at Rottenburg and Mergenthcim. Theological students are trained partly in the " Wilhelmsstif t" and partly in the theo- logical faculty of University of Tubingen, which has four ordinary and three extraordinary clerical pro- fessors. The "Theologische Quartalschrift", the
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