Jan Jacob Schultens

Jan Jacob Schultens (1716-1788)

Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716, Franeker - 27 November 1788, Leiden) was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden, later serving as a professor of Oriental languages at Herborn (1744-1749),^[1] and afterwards succeeded to his fathers chair at Leiden.^[2]

Selected publications

De utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam integritatem cod. hebr, 1742.
Oratio de fructibus redundantibus ex penitiore linguarum orientalium cognitione, 1749.
Bibliotheca Schultensiana, sive, Catalogus librorum, quos collegit vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Schultensius, 1780.^[3]
"The Albert and Jan Jacob Schultens Manuscript Collection", publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary Library, 1993.^[4]

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Attribution

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Library of Congress — the source for the Dutch version of his name (listed as John James in the 1911 Britannica)

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