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89 RELIGIOUS ENCYCLOPEDIA RDgere Romaine abilities, and in 1633 he took part in the war in the Valteline (see RICHELIEU). He was also made com mander of the Swiss mercenaries in France, but the cardinal, growing suspicious of his influence with the Protestants, sent him into exile, and he retired to Baden. Again he returned to France and for a time fought against the Spaniards in the Alpine passes, but soon fell out with the cardinal and offered his sword to Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, the greatest Protestant leader in the Thirty Years' War (q.v.) after the death of Gustavus Adolphus. He fell in the first engagement (at Rheinfelden) in which he took part. Among other works he wrote MEmoires sur les choses advenues ere France depuin la mort de Henri IV jusqu'h la pain de Juin, 1629 (Paris 1630; 8th ed., 2 vols., Amsterdam, 1756; Eng. transl., London, 1660); and Memoires et lettres Sur la guerre de la Valteline, ed. Zurlauben (3 vols., Geneva, 1758). JAMES WESTFALL THOMPSON. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Fauvelet du Tor, Hiat. de Henry Due de Bohan, Paris, 1667; A. Laugel, in Revue des deux mondea, 1879; idem, Henry de Bohan, son rdle politique et militaire sous Louis XIII., ib. 1889; M. G. Sehybergson, Le Due de Bohan et la chute du parti protestant en France, ib. 1880; H. de La Garde, Le Due de Bohan et les protestanta soul Louis XIII., ib. 1884; J. Biihring, Venedip, Gustaf Adolf, and Bohan, Halle, 1885; F. Guillermet, Bohan et lea Gene vois, Paris, 1891; J. de Bouffard-Madiane, MLmoirea our lea guerrea civilea du due de Bohan, 1610-.1'9, ed. C. Pradel, ib. 1889; F. Pieth, Die Feldzage deg Herzopa Bohan in Veltlin and in Graubanden, Bern, 1905; Lichtenberger, ESR, xi. 255-257. ROHR, r6r, IGNATZ: German Roman Catholic; b. at Hochmossingen (a village near Oberndorf, 43 m. s.w. of Stuttgart) June 29, 1866. He was edu cated at the University of Tobingen (Ph.D., 1894; D.D., 1899), where he was a lecturer on philosophy from 1894 to 1899 and on dogmatics from 1899 to 1903. In 1903 he was appointed professor of New Testament exegesis at the University of Breslau, where he remained until 1906, when he went in a similar capacity to Strasburg. He assists in editing Biblische Zeitfragen (Munster, 1908 sqq.); and has written Paulus and die Gemeinde von Corinth auf Grund der beiden Corintherbriefe (Freiburg, 1899); Der Vernichtungskampf gegen das biblische Chris tusbild (Munster, 1908); and Die Glaubwurdigkeit des Markusevangeliums (1909). ROIJAARDS, rey'y8rds, HERMAN JOHAN: Dutch Reformed; b. at Utrecht Oct. 3, 1794; d. there Jan. 2, 1854. After completing his education at the University of Utrecht in 1818, he became pastor of the church at Meerkerk, and in 1823 was appointed professor of theology at Utrecht. He was one of the founders in 1839 of the Archief voor kerke lajke Geschiedmis, a journal, in which he began his history of the Church in Holland, by an account of the Reformation in Utrecht (1845). He published Invoering en vestiging van het Christendom in Neder lartd (Utrecht, 1842), which was supplemented by Geschiedenis van het gevestigde Christendom en de christelijke kerk in Nederland gedurende de mid deleettwen (2 parts, 1849-53), which as a principal work is of permanent value. He also furthered the study of canon law in Holland, by his Hedendaagsch Kerkregt bij de Hervormden in Nederland (2 parts, 1834-37). (J. J. VAN OOSTERZEEt.)
ROKYCANA, rec"is-t'e'nd, JOHN: Bohemian priest, who was the central figure in the ecclesiastical history of Bohemia, 1430-70; d.1471. He first became prominent in 1427, by denouncing, in a sermon, the policy of Sigismund Korybut, who was attempting to bring about a reconciliation between Bohemia and the pope, which led to the expulsion of Korybut. After a temporary success at arms, Bohemia was induced, from exhaustion, to enter the negotiations of the Council of Basel (q.v.), which ended in the acceptance of the compacts by the Bohemians, Rokycana taking a chief part. Before the compacts were signed (1435), the Bohemians secretly elected Rokycana archbishop of Prague, with two suffragans; but Sigismund did not recognize him as archbishop without the consent of the council of Basel. The Roman Catholic reaction in 1437 obliged Rokycana to flee from Prague, but he resumed his office when the influence of George of Podiebrad (q.v.) became supreme, in 1444.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Monumenta conciliorum generalium sleculi, xv., vol. i., Vienna, 1857; F. Palaeky, Beitrdge zur Geschichte des Hussitenkrieges, 2 vols., Prague, 1872-73; Creighton, Papacy, ii. 189, 238-246, 255 et passim, iii. 130, iv. 35-38; Hefele, Concilienpeschichte, vol. vii. passim; and the literature under BABEL, COUNCIL OF; Huss, JOHN, HUBBITEs; and PODIEHRAD AND KUNBTAPT, GEORGE OF.
ROLLS. See CANON of SCRIPTURE, I., 6.ROMAINE, ro-mAn', WILLIAM: English Evangelical divine; b. at Hartlepool (17 m. s.e. of Durham), England, Sept. 25, 1714; d. at London July 26, 1795. He was educated at Hart Hall and Christ Church, Oxford (B.A., 1734; M.A., 1737); was ordained deacon, 1736, and priest, 1738; and was curate for many years at Baustead, Surrey, and Horton, Middlesex. While yet a deacon he made an attack upon William Warburton's Divine Legation, pursuing the subject in his first two sermons at the University of Oxford (1739, 1741). To critical study he made the contribution of a Hebrew Concordance, 1747-48, being an edition of that of Marius de Calasso. Drawn into the Evangelical revival, he first adhered to John Wesley, but in 1755 passed to the side of George Whitefield; and remained the ablest exponent among the Evangelicals of the highest Calvinistic doctrine. He was appointed to a lectureship at the united parishes of St. George's, Botolph's Lane, and St. Botolph's, Billingsgate, London, 1748; and to a double lectureship at St. Dunstan's-in-the-West, 1749, in addition to which he became morning preacher at St. George's, Hanover Square. His extreme Calvinism and radical manner, though popular with the masses, resulted in turbulence; and he was limited to an evening service at St. Dunstan's and deprived of St. George's. In 1756 he became curate at St. Olave's, Southwark; of St. Bartholomew the Great, in 1759; and at Westminster Chapel, 1761. After a turbulent career, he obtained the living at St. Anne's, Blackfriars, and St. Andrew of the Wardrobe in 1764, where he continued as a great popular attraction till his death. As a preacher he exercised great power, and his theology and views on the spiritual life are best contained in the long-popular works: The Life of Faith (London, 1764); The