Jacobus Golius
Dutch mathematician and orientalist · Netherlands · On the map · Academics · Lived 1596 to 1667 · aged 71
Jacob Golius, born Jacob van Gool, was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations.
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His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi.
