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GOLIUS or (GOHL), JACOBUS (1596-1667), Dutch Orientalist, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at the See also:

HAGUE, THE (in Dutch, 's Gravenhage, or, abbreviated, den Haag; in Fr. La Haye; and in Late Lat. Haga Comitis)

Hague in 1596 , and studied at the university of See also:

LEIDEN

Leiden, where in Arabic and other Eastern See also:

LANGUAGES

languages he was the most distinguished See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

ERPENIUS (original name VAN ExpE), THOMAS (1584–1624)

Erpenius. In 1622 he accompanied the Dutch See also:

EMBASSY

embassy to See also:

MOROCCO

Morocco, and on his return he was chosen to succeed Erpenius (1624). In the following See also:

YEAR

year he set out on a Syrian and Arabian tour from which he did not return until 1629. The See also:

REMAINDER, REVERSION

remainder of his See also:

LIFE

life was spent at Leiden where he held the See also:

CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair of See also:

MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics as well as that of Arabic. He died on the 28th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1667. His most important See also:

WORK

work is the See also:

LEXICON

Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, fol., Leiden, 1653, which, based on the Sihah of Al-Jauhari, was only superseded by the corresponding work of See also:

Freytag. Among his earlier publications may be mentioned See also:

EDITIONS

editions of various Arabic texts (Proverbia quaedam Alis, imperatoris Muslemici, et Carmen Tograipoetae doctissimi, necnon dissertatio quaedam Aben Synae, 1629; and A hmedis Arabsiadae vitae et rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamer, lanes dicitur, historia, 1636). In 1656 he published a new edition, with considerable additions, of the Grammatica Arabica of Erpenius. After his See also:

DEATH

death, there was found among his papers a Dictionarium Persico-Latinum which was published, with additions, by See also:

Edmund See also:

CASTELL, EDMUND (16o6-1685)

Castell in his Lexicon heptaglotton (1669). Golius also edited, translated and annotated the astronomical See also:

TREATISE

treatise of Alfragan (Muhammedis, filii Ketiri Ferganensis, qui vulgo Alfraganus dicitur, elementa astronomica Arabice et Latine, 1669).

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