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CLEYNAERTS (CLENARDUS Or CLENARD), See also:NICOLAS (1495- 1542), Belgian grammarian and traveller, was See also:born at Diest, in See also:Brabant, on the 5th of See also:December 1495. Educated at the university of See also:Louvain, he became a See also:professor of Latin, which he taught by a conversational method. He applied himself to the preparation of manuals of See also:Greek and See also:Hebrew See also:grammar, in See also:order to simplify the difficulties of learners. His Tabulae in grammaticen hebraeam (1529), Instituiiones in linguam graecam (1530), and Meditationes graecanicae (1531) appeared at Louvain. The Institutiones and Meditationes passed through a number of See also:editions, and had many commentators. He maintained a principle revived in See also:modern teaching, that the learner should not be puzzled by elaborate rules until he has obtained a working acquaintance with the See also:language. A See also:desire to read the See also:Koran led him to try to establish a connexion between Hebrew and Arabic. These studies resulted in a See also:scheme for proselytism among the See also:Arabs, based on study of the language, which should enable Europeans to combat the errors of See also:Islam by peaceful methods. In See also:prosecution of this See also:object he travelled in 1532 to See also:Spain, and after teaching Greek at See also:Salamanca was summoned to the See also:court of See also:Portugal as See also:tutor to See also:Don See also:Henry, See also:brother of See also:John III. He found another See also:patron in See also:Louis See also:Mendoza, See also:marquis of Mondexas, See also:governor-See also:general of See also:Granada. There with the help of a Moorish slave he gained a knowledge of Arabic. He tried in vain to gain See also:access to the Arabic See also:MSS. in the See also:possession of the See also:Inquisition, and finally, in 1540, set out for See also:Africa to seek See also:information for himself.

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Fez, then a flourishing seat of Arab learning, but after fifteen months of privation and suffering was obliged to return to Granada, and died in the autumn of 1542. He was buried in the See also:Alhambra See also:palace. See his Latin letters to his See also:friends in See also:Belgium, See also:Nicolai Clenardi, Peregrinationum ac de See also:rebus machometicis epistolae elegantissimae (Louvain, 1550), and a more See also:complete edition, Nic. Clenardi Epistolarum libri duo (See also:Antwerp, 1561), from the See also:house of See also:Plantin; also See also:Victor See also:Chauvin and See also:Alphonse Roersch, " Etude sur la See also:vie et See also:les travaux de Nicolas Clenard " in Memoires couronnes (vol. lx., 1900-19o1) of the Royal See also:Academy of Belgium, which contains a vast amount of information on Cleynaerts and an extensive bibliography of his See also:works, and of notices of him by earlier commentators.

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