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Albert Schultens (
1686 –
January 26,
1750) was a
Dutch philologist.
He was born at
Groningen, where he studied for the church. He went on to the
University of Leiden, applying himself specially to
Hebrew and the cognate tongues. His dissertation on
The Use of Arabic in the Interpretation of Scripture appeared in
1706. After a visit to
Reland in
Utrecht he returned to Groningen (1708); then, having taken his degree in
theology (1709), he returned to Leiden, and devoted himself to the study of the manuscript collections there until
1711, when he became pastor at Wassenaer.
He disdained parochial work and decided to accept the Hebrew chair at
Franeker in
1713. He held this position until 1729, when he was transferred to Leiden as rector of the
collegium theologicum, or seminary for poor students. From
1732 until his death (at
Leiden) he was professor of Oriental languages at Leiden.
Schultens was the chief teacher of the
Arabic language in the whole of the
Europe during his lifetime. In some sense, he revived Arabic studies. He differed from
J. J. Reiske and
Silvestre de Sacy in regarding Arabic as a handmaid to
Hebrew. He vindicated the value of comparative study of the Semitic tongues against those who, like
Jacques Gousset, regarded Hebrew as a sacred tongue with which comparative philology has nothing to do.
His principal works were
Origines Hebraeae (2 vols., 1724, 1738), a second edition of which, with the
De defectibus linguae Hebraeae (1731), appeared in 1761;
Job (1737);
Proverbs (1748);
Vetus et regia via hebraezandi (1738); and
Monumenla vetustiora Arabum (1740).
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