Gualterus Johannes Juynboll and Catharina Johanna Pla.
Theodor Willem Johannes Juynboll, also Theodorus Willem Johannes Juijnboll, Theodorus Guiliemus Johannes Juynboll (April 6, 1802 in
Rotterdam – September 16, 1861 in
Leiden) was a Dutch
Reformed theologian and oriental
philologist.
Life
Theodor Juynboll was the son of Gualterus Johannes Juynboll and Catharina Johanna Pla. After his mother died early in his childhood, his father married Johanna Deel and the family moved to
The Hague where Theodor attended Latin school. In 1821 he enrolled in theology and Semitic languages at the
University of Leiden under
Hendrik Arent Hamaker (1789–1835) and
Johannes Hendricus van der Palm. He was awarded a honorary mention in the academic competition of the
University of Leuven in 1824.[n 1] In 1828 he earned his doctorate of theology.[n 2][1]
In 1828, he entered the parish ministry of
Voorhout, where he worked as a
pastor until 1831 when he succeeded
Groenewoud as professor of semitic languages at the
Athenaeum in Franeker. He taught
Hebrew and
Semitic languages and Jewish antiquities and later the
Old Testament and Arab writers. He held the Alternate Rectorate of the Educational Institution from 1834 to 1836. In 1840 he became a corresponding member of the
Royal Institute of the Netherlands.[2] In the same year he received a royal honor as a professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew history at the
University of Groningen.
Juynboll succeeded G. Wolters at the University of Groningen in 1841 and four years later
H. E. Weijers in Leiden. As adjudicator he had
R. Dozy (1846–1850) and later
Pieter de Jong (1859–1861) and
de Goeje.
In 1845, he received an honorary doctorate of philosophy from the Senate of Groningen University, a professorship at the Faculty of Philosophy, Leiden University, teaching Oriental languages Arabic, Chaldean, Syriac, and Hebrew. In 1853/54, he became rector of his
Alma Mater.
Juynboll was a friend and colleague of the orientalist
Ferdinand Wüstenfeld. When Juynboll died prematurely, Wüstenfeld continued his translation work of the great geographic encyclopedia, Mu'jam al-Buldan by
Yaqut al-Hamawi, on which Juynboll had been editing an abridgement titled, Marâsid al ittilâ.[3]
In 1829, Juynboll married Wilhelmina Eva Verkouteren (1802–1871) at Voorhout. Their son
Abraham Wilhelm Theodorus Juynboll (1833–1887) also gained renown as a philologist.
Sermo de Henrico Engelino Weyers (Groningen, 1844)
Commentatio de versione Arabico-Samaritana, et de scholiis, quae codicibus Parisiensibus n. 2 et 4 adscripta sunt (Orientalia II, 113 acc.; Amsterdam, 1846)
Jaqubi's Kitab al-boldan als: Specimen... exhibens Kitabo'l-Boldan (Lugd. Bat., 1861)[4]
Lexicon geographicum
Ibn Taghribirdi's Annals, (unfinished). 4 parts of the first work (Leiden, 1850–1864, 1 part Arabic text, in collaboration with J.J.B. Gaal, 3 parts introduction and notes, 2 of which were posthumous). Two parts of the latter have been published, partly in collaboration with B.F. Matthes (Leiden, 1851–1861)
Licht gezonden van het Mohammedaansch rechtsboek At-Tanbih auctor Abu Ishak As-Shirazi (Leiden, 1879)[n 4]
al-Tanbīh fī al-fiqh ʻalá madhhab al-Imām al-Shāfiʻī (التنبيه في الفقه على مذهب الإمام الشافعي), "Exhortation on
fiqh in the doctrine of
Imam Shafi'i" by Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm ibn ʻAlī ibn Yūsuf Fīrūzābādī al-Shīrāzī (فيروزآبادي الشيرازي، أبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن علي بن يوسف) (Arabic text; Lugd. Bat., 1879)
Notes
^Commentatio de causis, quare regnum Judae diutius perstiterit quam regnum Israël(Leuven, 1824)
^Treatise Disputatio de Amoso ejusque scriptis ac veteribus eorum interpretibus, pars prima
^Marasid al-ittila’ ‘ala asma’ al-amkina wa-al-biqa’: wa-huwa mukhtasar mu’jam al-buldan li-Yaqut, 3 vols, edited by ‘Ali Muhammad al-Bajjawi, 1992; Cf.
Jaqut's shortened geographic dictionary: "Maracid alittila"(or "Meracid alittila") M. C. Defremery; "Memoires D'Histoire Orientale",1862, p.219.
(Meracid alittila, Juynboll, ed. p.347)
^Critique of the Islamic legal text Kitāb al-Tanbīh by the 11th C. jurist
Abu Ishaq as-Shirazi
Wensinck, Arent Jan (1911), Johannes Blok; Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (eds.),
"Juynboll, Theodoor Willem Jan", Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), Petrus
Yaqubi, Ahmad ibn Abi Yaqub (1861), Juynboll, Abrahamus Wilhelmus Theodorus (ed.),
Kitab al-Buldan (in Arabic), Laydin:
Brill Publishers