Jean Henri Pareau

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Jean Henri Pareau (also: Joannes Henricus Pareau, Jan Hendrik Pareau ; born May 13, 1761 in Amsterdam , † February 1, 1833 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch orientalist and Reformed theologian.

Life

The son of the jeweler Guilleaume Henri Pareau (* December 1700 - December 25, 1770 in Amsterdam) and his wife Angélique Croquet (born: December 24, 1789 in Amsterdam) had already lost their father when he was nine years old. At the age of twelve he moved to the Latin school in his hometown, where, encouraged by Pieter Burman the Younger, he developed a special preference for Greek and Latin poets. He left this school with the poetry de Ira , which he had written out of defiance over the rejection of another essay. On March 28, 1777 he was accepted as a theology student at the Athenaeum Illustre in his hometown , where he took classes with Burman, Herman Tollius , Daniel Wyttenbach , Henry Albert Schultens , Diederik Adriaan Walraven (1732–1804) and Petrus Curtenius (1716– 1789) persecuted.

He spent three years preparing for his pastoral service, with the oriental languages ​​and their poetry being his main area of ​​interest. In 1780 he left the educational institution to continue his studies of Latin and Greek literature at the University of Leiden with David Ruhnken and Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer (1715–1785). Here he also attended the lectures on natural law given by Dionysius van de Wijnpersse and those lectures on theology given by Aegidius Gillesen (1712–1800), Ewaldus Hollebeek (1719–1796), Carolus Boers (1746–1814) and Petrus Rietveld (1739–1784) . On September 2nd, he passed his theological exam and was accepted as one of the theological candidates of the Wallonia Reformed Church. He then went back to Amsterdam, where he practiced as a pulpit speaker through sermons and continued his studies. He also received a position as a private tutor with the Amsterdam mayor Willem Gerrit Dedel (1734–1801).

On February 6, 1789, he received a pastor's post at the Walloon community in Deventer and an appointment as professor of theology and oriental languages ​​at the local Athenaeum Illustre. Shortly afterwards, on November 19 of the same year, the theological faculty of the Leiden University appointed him doctor honoris causa, which he received with the speech de conatibus incredulorum rei Christianae plus emolumenti quam detrimenti afferentibus . Due to the revolution of 1795 he was dismissed from office in Deventer and on October 30, 1796 received a new appointment as pastor in the Walloon parish in Middelburg . He took up this position on February 19, 1797. In 1798 he was called again to Deventer as pastor and professor of theology, ethics and oriental languages ​​at the Illustre grammar school. Therefore he gave his farewell sermon on March 3rd in Middelburg and took over on May 27th with a speech on the apology for the study of oriental languages, entitled De literis orientalibus minime injucundis .

However, one could not keep him in Deventer, because on September 20, 1804 the curators of the University of Harderwijk appointed him professor of oriental languages ​​and Hebrew antiquities, which he did on June 13, 1805 with the introductory speech De ingenuo poëseos hebraicae studio nostris temporibus magnopere commendando took over. In Harderwijk, he mainly taught the Arabic languages ​​and published critical studies on Job . He also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1807/08 , which position he resigned with the speech de amico atque utili Graecarum Latinarumque literarum cum Orientalibus consortio . On May 14, 1810, the curators of the University of Utrecht appointed him professor of theology, which he assumed on August 27, 1810 and his introductory speech de constanti ac non mutabili orientalium ingenio, sacrarum literarum cultoribus suos in usus diligenter observando on September 27, 1810 held. He also became pastor of the Walloon community in Utrecht in 1812. His teaching assignment ended when, due to the new regulation of higher education issued by King Wilhelm on August 2, 1815, he took over the chair for speculative philosophy on November 6, 1815, as well as the chair for oriental literature, which he held until his retirement on 22nd October 1830 held.

He also took over this chair once again as emeritus from January 1831 to February 1, 1833. In his capacity as a Utrecht university lecturer, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the Utrecht School and was rector of the Alma Mater in 1822/23 , which he handed over to his successor on March 20, 1823 and ended with the speech de honoris studio Orientalium . In recognition of his scientific work, he found access to several learned societies. So on January 31, 1793 as a member of the Zealand Society of Sciences ( Zeeuwsch Genootschap der Wetenschappen ), 1807 as a member of the provincial Utrecht Society of Arts and Sciences, on July 5, 1809 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences , 1814 member of the Dutch Society of Sciences in Haarlem ( Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen ), 1816 corresponding member of the Société asiatique in Paris and 1826 corresponding member of the Royal Asiatic Society in London.

In Deventer he married Helena Nisina Ribbius on August 31, 1794, daughter of Lodewijk van Eyll Ribbius and his wife Aleida Duikink. In marriage, two sons and four daughters were born. Of these children, the Groningen professor Louis Gerlach Pareau (1800–1866) and the theologian Anton Henri Pareau (1805–1859) are known. Of the daughters, Theodora Aleida Pareau (born September 13, 1795 - † March 27, 1847) married Daniel Revel, and the names are Wilhelmine Henriette Angelique (* December 15, 1797 - October 19, 1866) Pareau, Maria Magdalena Pareau (* September 22, 1802 - January 23, 1857) and Cornelia Helena Pareau (March 6, 1804 - January 16, 1882).

Works (selection)

• de Threni Jeremiae philologicè et criticè illustrati. Leiden 1790
• Oratio de conatibus incredulorum rei christianae plus emolumenti quam detrimenti afferentibus. 1790, 1799
• Oratio de literis orientalibus minime injucundis: publice habita d. 27. Maji a. 1799. Deventer 1799
• Oratio de ingenuo poësos Hebreïcae studio, nostris temporibus magnopere commendando ', tweede title:' Oratio de ingenuo poësos Hebreïcae studio. Harderwijk 1805
• Commentatio de immortalitatis ac vitae futurae notitiis ab antiquissimo Jobi scriptore in suos usus adhibitis: accedit sermo Jobi de sapientia mortuis magis cognita quam vivis: sive Jobeidis caput XXVIII philologice et critice illustratum. Deventer 1807
• Oratio de amico atque utili Graecarum Latinarumque literarum cum orientalibus consortio. Harderwijk 1808
• Oratio de constanti ac non mutabili orientalium ingenio, sacrarum literarum cultoribus suos in usus diligenter observando. 1810
• Sermons on quelques textes de l'Écriture Saine. 1814
• Disputatio de rationem, quae mythicam librorum sacrorum interpretationem suadeant, momento ac pon. 1814
• Antiquitas Hebraica breviter descripta. Utrecht 1817
• Sermon, prononcé pout l'ouverture de la réunion des députés des Églises Wallonnes à Zutphen. 1819
• Institutio interpretis Veteris Testamenti. Utrecht 1822
• Antiuitas Hebraica breviter descriptae appendix, sive Alterius editionis praefatio et indices. Utrecht 1822
• Disputatio de mythica sacri codicis interpretatione. Utrecht 1824
• De mythica sacri codicis'. Editie: Ed. altera, additamento et indicibus aucta. Utrecht 1824
• Specimen academicum continens Commentationem de Tograji carmine. 1828
• Commentatio de Amralkeisi Moallakah, praelecta in tertia classe Instituti doctrinarum, quod Amstelodami est, et annotatis instructa. Utrecht 1828.
• Antiuitas Hebraica broadviter descripta.

literature

• Barend Glasius: Biographical Woordenboek van Nederlandsche Godgeleerden. Muller Brothers, 's-Hertogenbosch, 1856, Vol. 3, p. 72 ( Online , Dutch)
• Abraham Jacob van der Aa : Biographical Woordenboek der Nederlanden. Verlag JJ van Brederode, Haarlem, 1872, vol. 15, p. 91 ( online , Dutch)
• Knappert: PAREAU (Jean Henri) . In: Philipp Christiaan Molhuysen , Petrus Johannes Blok : Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek . (NNBW), AW Sijthoff's Uitgevers-Maatschappij, Amsterdam, 1912, vol. 2, sp. 1065
• J. Vree: PAREAU JEAN HENRI . In: J. van den Berg: Biografisch lexicon voor de geschiedenis van het Nederlandse protestantisme. Verlag Uit Geversmaatschappij JH Kok, Kampen, 2006, ISBN 90-435-1279-4 , 6th vol., P. 221 (Dutch)
• Jodocus Heringa Eliza's zoon : Levensberigt en Karakterschets van wijlen den Hoogleeraar Jean Henri Pareau. In: NC Kist, HJ Royaards: Archief voor Kerkelijke Geschiedenis inzonderheid van Nederland. Verlag S. and J. Luchtmans, Leiden 1833, Vol. 4, pp. 253-319, ( online , Dutch)
• Gerrit Nieuwenhuis: Algemeen woordenboek van kunsten en wetenschappen. With the appendix op het woordenboek van kunsten en wetenschappen. (PQ) p. 62 ( online , Dutch)
• Hermannus Bouman : Geschiedenis van de voormalige Geldersche Hoogeschool en hare Hoogleeraren. Publishing house JG van Terveen and Son; Utrecht 1847; ( Online , Dutch)

Web links

• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae
• Pareau at the DBNL
• Pareau at the KNAW
• Website of the Pareau family