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Albert Schultens

ألبرت سخولتنس

Notable figure 1686–1750 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 655; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin (Beirut: Dar al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya, 2004), p. 677 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, GND authority record: Schultens, Albert (1686-1750)

Field: Semitic philology

Affiliation

Leiden professor of Arabic; re-edited Erpenius's grammar

Biography

Born in Groningen, he studied Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac at Leiden, taught at Franeker, and became professor of oriental languages and interpreter at Leiden (1729). He used Arabic to explain Hebrew words and was among the first to compare the Semitic languages; he published maqamas of al-Hariri with a Latin translation and re-edited Erpenius's Arabic grammar (Leiden 1748).