Hendrik Albert Schultens (25 February 1749 – 12 August 1793) was a third generation Dutch linguist.

Life

Shultens was born in Herborn. He was the son of

Jan Jacob Schultens Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716 in Franeker – 27 November 1788 in Leiden) was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden Leiden (; in English and ...

, orientalist and professor at

Leiden University Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...

and Suzanna Amalia Schramm, and was the grandson of

Albert Schultens Albert Schultens (; 168626 January 1750) was a Dutch philologist. Biography He was born at Groningen, where he studied for the church. He went on to the University of Leiden, applying himself specially to Hebrew and the cognate tongues. His thes ...

. Schultens studied orientalism in Leiden. He traveled to England and studied at

Wadham College, Oxford Wadham College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It is located in the centre of Oxford, at the intersection of Broad Street and Parks Road. Wadham College was founded in 1610 by Dorothy W ...

, where he became Magister Artium, honoris causa, in 1773. He became professor in Eastern languages, first in

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, and then in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...

. He married Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter. Schultens published a translation (to Latin) and edition of Persian scholar

Al-Zamakhshari Abu al-Qasim Mahmud ibn Umar al-Zamakhshari (; 1074 –1143) was a medieval Muslim scholar of Iranian descent. He travelled to Makkah and settled there for five years and has been known since then as Jar Allah ‘God's Neighbor’. He was a Mu't ...

, "Anthologia sententiarum Arabicarum: Cum scholiis Zamachsjarii" (1772). He was also the author of an edition of ancient Eastern fables, "Pars versionis arabicae libri Colailah wa Dimnah, sive Fabularum Bidpai philosophi Indi" (1786).WorldCat Title
Pars versionis arabicae libri Colailah wa Dimnah, etc. He died in

in 1793, leaving an edition of

Al-Maydani ʿAbd al-Ghanī ibn Ṭālib bin Ḥamāda ibn Ibrāhīm al-Ghunaymī al-Dimashqī al-Maydānī (عبد الغني الغنيمي الميداني الحنفي) was a jurist (faqīh) and legal theorist (uṣūlī) adhering to the Hanafi school as w ...

unfinished.

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* 1749 births 1793 deaths Linguists from the Netherlands Dutch orientalists People from Leiden Leiden University alumni Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Academic staff of Leiden University Academic staff of the University of Amsterdam People from Lahn-Dill-Kreis {{Netherlands-linguist-stub