Louis de Dieu explained

Louis de Dieu (7 April 1590, Flushing  - 23 December 1642, Leiden) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a leading orientalist.^[1]

His grandfather had served at the court of Charles V, and his father, Daniel de Dieu, was also a protestant minister and linguist. Louis was educated at Leiden, where he was regent of the Walloon College (1637-42). He declined the chair of theology and oriental languages at Utrecht.

Works

• Compendium Grammaticae Hebraicae et dictionnariolum praecipuarum radicum (Leiden, 1626)
• Apocalypsis S. Joannis syriace, ex manuscripto exemplari bibliothecae Josephi Scaligeri deprompta, edita caractere syriaco et hebraeo, cum versione latina, graeco textu et notis (Leiden, 1627)
• Grammatica trilinguis, Hebraica, Syriaca, et Chaldaica (Leiden, 1628)
• Rudimenta linguae persicae (Leiden, 1639); a Persian grammar
• Grammatica Linguarum Orientalium, ex recensione Dav. Clodii (Frankfurt, 1683); four grammarshebraic, syriac, chaldaic and persian.
• Critica sacra, sive animadversiones in loca quaedam difficiliora Veteris et Novi Testam (Amsterdam, 1693); commentary on the Old Testament and the New Testament
• Aphorismi theologici (Utrecht, 1693)
• Traite contre l'Avarice (Deventer, 1695)

Bibliography

• • Henk J. de Jonge. The Study of the New Testament in the Dutch universities 1575-1700 in Th. H. Lunsingh Scheurleer and G.H.M. Posthumus Meyjes (eds). Leiden University in the Seventeenth Century. Leiden. 1975. 113–29.

External links

• Works of Lodewijk de Dieu
• Biography - University of Leiden
• Biography at http://www.iranica.com

Notes and References

1. The Correspondence of James Ussher, vol.III, pp.1177-8 (Irish Manuscripts Commission, Dublin 2015)