Jan Jacob Schultens

Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716, Franeker – 27 November 1788, Leiden) was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden, later serving as a professor of Oriental languages at Herborn (1744–1749), and afterwards succeeded to his fathers chair at Leiden.

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