Jean Henri Pareau

Jean Henri Pareau, also known as Joannes Henricus Pareau (13 May 1761, Amsterdam – 1 February 1833, Utrecht) was a Dutch Reformed theologian and orientalist.

He was the father of theologian Louis Gerlach Pareau (1800–1866).

He studied Oriental languages in Amsterdam (Athenaeum Illustre) and Leiden.

At Amsterdam, his instructors included Pieter Burman the Younger, Herman Tollius, Daniel Albert Wyttenbach and Henry Albert Schultens; in Leiden he was a student of David Ruhnken and Lodewijk Caspar Valckenaer.

[2] Pareau was a member of the "Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde" (Society of Dutch Literature) and an early member of the Royal Institute of Sciences, Literature and Fine Arts (1809–1816).