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Gerardus Kuypers
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Gerardus Kuypers

خيراردوس كاوبرس

Notable figure 1722–1798 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 656; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 926 · Second source: Biographisch woordenboek van protestantsche godgeleerden in Nederland, vol. 5: Kuypers, Gerardus (1722-1798)

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Editor of the poems of ʿAli, with Latin version (1745)

Biography

Born at Mijnsheerenland, he studied theology at Leiden, where Albert Schultens drew him to Arabic, and defended a dissertation (1743) explaining Old Testament words from Arabic. He edited poems ascribed to ʿAli ibn Abi Talib in Arabic with a Latin translation, notes and an Arabic–Latin glossary (Leiden, 1745), then served as a preacher and became professor of theology at Groningen (1765).