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Jacobus Golius
Image: Hieronymus van der Mij (1687-1761), Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Jacobus Golius

يعقوب جوليوس

Notable figure 1596–1667 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 31, 42 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 9, 1879, p. 343): Golius, Jakob, 1596–1667, born The Hague

Field: Lexicography

Affiliation

Lexicographer; author of the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653)

Biography

Born in The Hague, he studied Arabic at Leiden under Erpenius and succeeded him in the chair. His Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1653), built largely on al-Jawhari's al-Sihah, remained the reference of European students of Arabic for nearly two centuries, and he reissued Erpenius's grammar with additions (1656). He also published al-Tughraʾi's Lamiyyat al-ʿAjam with proverbs ascribed to ʿAli ibn Abi Talib (Leiden 1629).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»