Jan Jacob Schultens

Jan Jacob Schultens (1716-1788)

Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716, Franeker – 27 November 1788, 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 fathers chair at Leiden.^[2]

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

1. Hessian Biography Schulten, Johann Jakob
2. Chisholm 1911.
3. Post Reformation Digital Library (publications)
4. Google Books (publications)

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schultens". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• Library of Congress — the source for the Dutch version of his name (listed as John James in the 1911 Britannica)