Hendrik Albert Schultens
Hendrik Albert Schultens also: Heinrich Albert Schultens, Henry Albert Schultens ; (* February 15, 1749 in Herborn ; † August 12, 1793 in Leiden ) was a Dutch orientalist.
Life
Hendrik Albert Schultens was the son of the Reformed theologian and Orientalist Jan Jacob Schultens . He had attended Latin school in Leiden and Haarlem. From 1758 he had studied the oriental languages at the University of Leiden . In 1765 he continued his studies at the University of Harderwijk , where Meinard Tydeman the Elder and Everard Scheidius became his formative teachers. In 1767 he returned to Leiden, where Tiberius Hemsterhuis , David Ruhnken and Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer had a formative influence on his educational development.
In 1772 he went on a study trip to England, where he worked in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University to work on Edward Pocockes' written legacy of the Arabic proverbs of Ahmed el Meidani (-518). The result of this work appeared in a Latin translation under the title Specimen proverbiorum Meidanii . In addition, on May 4, 1773, the Senate of Oxford University awarded him the Honorary Magisterium of Philosophy. In the same year, on August 18, 1773, he received a call to the Athenaeum Illustre Amsterdam as professor of oriental languages and Jewish antiquities, which he took on on November 15, 1773 with the speech de finibus literarum orientalium proferendis .
After the death of his father on December 11, 1778, the curators of the University of Leiden appointed him professor of Oriental languages and Jewish antiquities at the Leiden University. He took on this task on March 1, 1779 with the speech de studio Belgarum in litteris Arabicis excolendis . In his capacity as a university lecturer in Leiden, he also took part in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1787/88 . At the resignation of the office he gave the speech De ingenio Arabum . Schultens was a member of the Society of Dutch Literature in Leiden.
His marriage to Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter on April 10, 1774 resulted in three sons and two daughters. The sons of Jan Jacob Schultens (March 21, 1775 in Amsterdam), Dr. med. Wolter Reinoud Schultens (born May 9, 1778 in Amsterdam; † February 3, 1804 ibid) and Albert Willem Schultens (born April 17, 1783 in Leiden, † December 5, 1804 in Amsterdam). As well as the daughters Johanna Elisabeth Schultens (born November 22, 1779 in Leiden, † June 22, 1820 in Groningen, married July 1809 to Pieter Durlau) and Henrietta Catharina Schultens (born January 15, 1782 in Leiden; † November 25, 1797 there ).
Works
- Theses philologicae. Harderwijk 1766
- Anthologia Sententiarum Arabicarum, cum Scholiis Zamachsjarii, versione latina et notis HAS Leiden 1772
- Specimen proverbiorum Meidani e versione Pocockiana. London 1773 ( online )
- Oratio de finibus Orienlalium literarum proferendis. Amsterdam 1773 ( online )
- Oratio de studio Belgarum in literis Arabicis excolendis. Leiden 1779
- Pars versionis Arabicae libri Colailah wa Dimnah, sive fabularum Pidpai, Philosophi Indi. Leiden 1786 ( online ), 1795 ( online )
- Oratio de ingenio Arabum. Leiden 1788
- Observationes in loca veterum. Leiden, 1793; Hebrew translated by Herman Muthinge: Amsterdam 1794
literature
- Jacobus Kantelaar: Lofreden op Henrik Albert Schultens. In: Algemeene Vaderlandsche Letter-oefeningen, Waarin de Boeken en Schriften, the Dagelyks in ons Vaderland en Elders Uitkomen, Oordeelkundig tevens en vrymoedig. A. van der Kroe & J. Yntema, Amsterdam, 1795, vol. 1, p. 22, ( online )
- Algemeen nederlandsch Familieblad. Bureau Groenendaal, 1892, Vol. 9, pp. 37-38
- JC de Bruine: SCHULTENS, HENDRIK ALBERT . In: Biografisch Lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme. UitgeversMaatschappij JH Kok, Kampen 1978, ISBN 90-242-2091-2 , vol. 1, p. 333,
- AJ Wensinck: SCHULTENS (Hendrik Albert) . In: Petrus Johannes Blok , Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen (Ed.): Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . Part 5. N. Israel, Amsterdam 1974, Sp. 711–712 (Dutch, knaw.nl / dbnl.org - first edition: AW Sijthoff, Leiden 1921, reprinted unchanged).
- Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem 1874, vol. 17, part 1, p. 532, ( online , Dutch)
- Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1856, Vol. 3, p. 322, ( online , Dutch)
- Friedrich Theodor Rink: Heinrich Albert Schultens. A sketch. Joh. Fr. Hartknoch, Riga, 1794 ( 11059230 in VD 18. )
Web links
- Album Academicum University of Amsterdam
- HA Schultens at the DBNL
- Publications by and about Hendrik Albert Schultens in VD 18 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schultens, Hendrik Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schultens, Heinrich Albert; Schultens, Henry Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1749 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1793 |
| Place of death | Suffer |