Jacobus Golius
Jacob Golius born Jacob van Gool was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the University of Leiden in Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. 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.
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Date of Birth
January 1st, 1596
Age
430
Birth Place
Kingdom of the Netherlands, Netherlands, South Holland
Date of Death
September 28th, 1667
Died Aged
71
Star Sign
Capricorn
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