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Hendrik Albert Schultens
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Hendrik Albert Schultens

هندريك ألبرت سخولتنس

Notable figure 1749–1793 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 656; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 677 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Schultens, Hendrik Albert (1749-1793)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of Arabic proverbs, from al-Maydani's collection

Biography

He studied Arabic and Hebrew at Leiden and travelled to Oxford and Cambridge to collect manuscripts, publishing a selection of Arabic proverbs (Cambridge, 1772). He became professor of Oriental languages at Amsterdam, then at Leiden (1778), published part of the Arabic Kalila and Dimna with a Latin translation (Leiden, 1786), and worked on al-Maydani's Majmaʿ al-amthal, part of which was published.