Henry Albert Schultens

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Hendrik Albert Schultens (25 February 1749, Herborn - 12 August 1793, Leiden) was a third generation Dutch linguist.

He was the son of Jan Jacob Schultens, orientalist and professor at Leiden University and Suzanna Amalia Schramm, and was the grandson of Albert Schultens. Schultens studied orientalism in Leiden. He traveled to England and studied at Oxford, where he became Magister Artium, honoris causa, in 1773. He became professor in Eastern languages, first in Amsterdam, and then in Leiden. He married Catharina Elisabeth de Sitter. Schultens did a translation (to Latin) and discussion of the adab work Nawabigh ul-kalim of Zamakhshari (1772 Leiden)

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