Henricus Hornkens, sometimes cited as Henri or Heinrich (died 1612) was a 16th-century priest and lexicographer.

Life

Hornkens served

Philip II of Spain Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...

and Philip III of Spain as a court chaplain. In 1598 he accompanied the Infanta

Isabella Clara Eugenia Isabella Clara Eugenia ( es, link=no, Isabel Clara Eugenia; 12 August 1566 – 1 December 1633), sometimes referred to as Clara Isabella Eugenia, was sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands in the Low Countries and the north of modern France with ...

to the

Low Countries The term Low Countries, also known as the Low Lands ( nl, de Lage Landen, french: les Pays-Bas, lb, déi Niddereg Lännereien) and historically called the Netherlands ( nl, de Nederlanden), Flanders, or Belgica, is a coastal lowland region in N ...

, where he became dean of the church of St Gummarus in Lier,

Duchy of Brabant The Duchy of Brabant was a State of the Holy Roman Empire established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries, part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Neth ...

. He compiled a French-Spanish-Latin dictionary that was published in Brussels in 1599 and was used by

César Oudin César Oudin (''c''. 1560 – 1 October 1625) was a French Hispanist, translator, paremiologist, grammarian and lexicographer. He translated into French ''La Galatea'' and the first part of ''Don Quixote''. He wrote a ''Grammaire espagnolle expl ...

in his own lexicographical work. He died in 1612.

Émile Van Arenbergh Émile Van Arenbergh (1854–1934) was a Belgian magistrate, poet and biographer. Life Van Arenbergh was born in Leuven on 15 May 1854 and studied law at the Catholic University of Leuven. While a student he wrote for ''La Semaine des étudiants'' ...

, "Hornkens (Henri)", '' Biographie Nationale de Belgique''
vol. 9
(Brussels, 1887), 519.

Work

* ''Recueil de dictionnaires françoys, espagnols et latins'' (Brussels: Rutger Velpius, 1599
Available on Google Books

References

Year of birth unknown 1612 deaths Hispanists Lexicographers 16th-century Spanish Roman Catholic priests {{Europe-linguist-stub