Albert Schultens

[1] He disdained parochial work and decided to accept the Hebrew chair at Franeker in 1713.

He held this position until 1729, when he was transferred to Leiden as rector of the collegium theologicum, or seminary for poor students.

[1] Schultens was the chief teacher of the Arabic language in the whole of the Europe during his lifetime.

He differed from J. J. Reiske and Silvestre de Sacy in regarding Arabic as a handmaid to Hebrew.

[1][2] His principal works were Institutiones ad Fundumenta Linguæ Hebraicæ (1737), Origines Hebraeae (2 vols., 1724, 1738), a second edition of which, with the De defectibus linguae Hebraeae (1731), appeared in 1761; Job (1737); Proverbs (1748); Vetus et regia via hebraezandi (1738); and Monumenta vetustiora Arabum (1740).