Jan Jacob Schultens

Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716 in Franeker – 27 November 1788 in Leiden) was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden, later serving as a professor of Oriental languages at Herborn (1744–1749), and afterwards succeeded to his father's chair at Leiden. His son was the Dutch linguist Henry Albert Schultens.

Selected publications

 * De utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam integritatem cod. hebr, 1742.
 * Oratio de fructibus redundantibus ex penitiore linguarum orientalium cognitione, 1749.
 * Bibliotheca Schultensiana, sive, Catalogus librorum, quos collegit vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Schultensius, 1780.
 * "The Albert and Jan Jacob Schultens Manuscript Collection", publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary Library, 1993.