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Dutch orientalist
Jan Jacob Schultens (1716-1788)
Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716 in
Franeker – 27 November 1788 in
Leiden) was a Dutch
orientalist. He was the son of
philologist
Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in
theology at
Leiden, later serving as a professor of
Oriental languages at
Herborn (1744–1749),
[1] and afterwards succeeded to his father's chair at Leiden. His son was the Dutch linguist
Henry Albert Schultens.
Selected publications
- De utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam integritatem cod. hebr, 1742.
- Oratio de fructibus redundantibus ex penitiore linguarum orientalium cognitione, 1749.
- Bibliotheca Schultensiana, sive, Catalogus librorum, quos collegit vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Schultensius, 1780.
[3]
- "The Albert and Jan Jacob Schultens Manuscript Collection", publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary Library, 1993.
[4]
References
Attribution
External links
-
Library of Congress — the source for the Dutch version of his name (listed as John James in the 1911 Britannica)
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