Henry Albert Schultens

Hendrik Albert Schultens also: Heinrich Albert Schulten, Henry Albert Schulten; (* February 15, 1749 in Herborn, † August 12, 1793 in Leiden ) was a German orientalist.

Life

Hendrik Albert Schulten was the son of Reformed theologian and orientalist Jan Jacob Schultens. He had attended the Latin School in Leiden and Haarlem. From 1758 he studied 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 his formative teachers were. In 1767 he returned to Leiden, where Tiberius Hemsterhuis, David Ruhnken and Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer had taken a formative influence on his visual development.

In 1772, he undertook a study trip to England, where he made in the Bodleian Library at Oxford University on the processing of Edward Pocockes written heritage of Arab proverbs of Ahmed el Meidani ( -518 ). The result of this work appeared in a Latin translation under the title Specimen proverbiorum Meidanii. In addition to him on May 4, 1773, the Senate of the University of Oxford conferred the honorary master's degree in philosophy. In the same year he received on August 18, 1773 a professorship at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam as professor of oriental languages ​​and Jewish Antiquities, which task he took on November 15, 1773 of the speech de finibus literarum Orientalium proferendis.

After the death of his father appointed him on 11 December 1778 Curators of the University of Leiden professor of oriental languages ​​and Jewish antiquities at the Leiden University. He accepted this task on March 1, 1779 speech in de studio Belgarum litteris Arabicis excolendis. In his capacity as the Leiden university teacher, he also participated in the organizational tasks of the university and was 1787/88 Rector of the Alma Mater. In the event of resignation, he gave the speech De ingenio Arabum. Schultens was a member of the Society of Dutch literature in Leiden.

From its closed on April 10, 1774 marriage to Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter coming three sons and two daughters. One knows the sons of Jan Jacob Schultens (March 21, 1775 in Amsterdam), Dr. 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 (* November 22, 1779 in Leiden, † June 22, 1820 in Groningen, married July 1809 by Pieter Durlau. ) And Henrietta Catharina Schultens (* January 15, 1782 in Leiden, † November 25, 1797 ibid ).

Works

  • Theses philo logicae. Harderwijk 1766
  • Anthologia Sentences 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, immersive fabularum Pidpai, Philosophical 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
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