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Louis de Dieu (7 April 1590,

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– 23 December 1642,

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, and his father, Daniel de Dieu, was also a protestant minister and linguist. Louis was educated at Leiden, where he was regent of the Walloon College (1637-42). He declined the chair of theology and oriental languages at Utrecht.

Works

*''Compendium Grammaticae Hebraicae et dictionnariolum praecipuarum radicum'' (Leiden, 1626) *''Apocalypsis S. Joannis syriace, ex manuscripto exemplari bibliothecae Josephi Scaligeri deprompta, edita caractere syriaco et hebraeo, cum versione latina, graeco textu et notis'' (Leiden, 1627) *''Grammatica trilinguis, Hebraica, Syriaca, et Chaldaica'' (Leiden, 1628) *''Rudimenta linguae persicae'' (Leiden, 1639); a Persian grammar *''Grammatica Linguarum Orientalium, ex recensione Dav. Clodii'' (Frankfurt, 1683); four grammarshebraic, syriac, chaldaic and persian. *''Critica sacra, sive animadversiones in loca quaedam difficiliora Veteris et Novi Testam'' (Amsterdam, 1693); commentary on the Old Testament and the

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*''Aphorismi theologici'' (Utrecht, 1693) *''Traite contre l'Avarice'' (Deventer, 1695)

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External links

Works of Lodewijk de DieuBiography at http://www.iranica.com
* 1590 births 1642 deaths 17th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers Dutch orientalists Linguists from the Netherlands People from Vlissingen People from Leiden {{Christian-theologian-stub