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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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