Albertus Schultens (1686-1750)
- Subject Fields
- Hebrew, Antiquities (Archaeology), Oriental Languages
- Born
- Leiden, The Netherlands
- Famous for
- His new approach to semitic texts: viewing old Hebrew, the very language of the Bible, as a minor branch in a larger family of languages which was dominated by Arabic. He became the first curator of a separate department of Oriental manuscripts and printed books at Leiden University.
- Researcher in Leiden
- 1732-1750
