Johannes Jakob Buxtorf (September 4, 1645 – April 4, 1705) was Professor of Hebrew at Basel.
According to a letter written by his father to Coccejus[1] in 1663, he was able at eighteen to read the Hebrew text of the Bible and of the Targums; and he is said also to have had some acquaintance with the Rabbinic and the Syriac.
In the following year he received leave of absence and visited Geneva, France, Holland (wintering at Leyden), and London.
The general suspicion of foreigners in London just after the great fire of 1666, however, caused Buxtorf to take refuge in a neighboring village, whence he later went to Oxford and Cambridge.
He wrote little with the exception of a preface to his edition of his grandfather's Tiberias (Basel, 1665), and his emendations to the Synagoga Judaica (1680).