Albert Schultens
Albert Schultens (Dutch: philologist.
Biography
He was born at
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.[1]
He disdained parochial work and decided to accept the Hebrew chair at
Oriental languages at Leiden.[1]
Schultens was the chief teacher of the
Silvestre de Sacy in regarding Arabic as a handmaid to Hebrew.[1] Reiske considered Schultens' treatment of Arabic to be of little value, also maintaining that Arabic studies should not be taught as part of theology, but as a subject matter in its own right, as was mathematics, physics, geography and medicine.[4] Schultens 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.[1][2]
His principal works were Institutiones ad Fundumenta Linguæ Hebraicæ (1737), 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 Monumenta vetustiora Arabum (1740). He left unfinished Institutiones Aramææ (1745–49).[1]
References
- New International Encyclopedia(1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ a b c d e f One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schultens". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 382.
- ^ a b Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: The History of Its Interpretation 2: edited by Magne Saebo, Magne Sæbø
- ^ Google Books The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia ..., Volume 21
- ^ History of Linguistics 2002: Selected Papers from the Ninth International... edited by Eduardo R. J. Guimaraes, Diana Luz Pessoa De Barros
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