Jan Jacob Schultens Explained

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.^[2]
• "The Albert and Jan Jacob Schultens Manuscript Collection", publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary Library, 1993.^[3]

External links

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

Notes and References

1. http://www.lagis-hessen.de/de/subjects/idrec/sn/bio/id/3249 Hessian Biography
2. http://www.prdl.org/author_view.php?a_id=4012 Post Reformation Digital Library
3. http://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Jan+Jacob+Schultens%22 Google Books