Louis de Dieu

Louis de Dieu (7 April 1590, Flushing – 23 December 1642, Leiden) was a Dutch Protestant minister and a leading orientalist.

His grandfather had served at the court of Charles V, and his father, Daniel de Dieu, was also a protestant minister and linguist. Louis was educated at Leiden, where he was regent of the Walloon College (1637-42). He declined the chair of theology and oriental languages at Utrecht.

Works

 * Compendium Grammaticae Hebraicae et dictionnariolum praecipuarum radicum (Leiden, 1626)
 * Apocalypsis S. Joannis syriace, ex manuscripto exemplari bibliothecae Josephi Scaligeri deprompta, edita caractere syriaco et hebraeo, cum versione latina, graeco textu et notis (Leiden, 1627)
 * Grammatica trilinguis, Hebraica, Syriaca, et Chaldaica (Leiden, 1628)
 * Rudimenta linguae persicae (Leiden, 1639); a Persian grammar
 * Grammatica Linguarum Orientalium, ex recensione Dav. Clodii (Frankfurt, 1683); four grammarshebraic, syriac, chaldaic and persian.


 * Critica sacra, sive animadversiones in loca quaedam difficiliora Veteris et Novi Testam (Amsterdam, 1693); commentary on the Old Testament and the New Testament
 * Aphorismi theologici (Utrecht, 1693)


 * Traite contre l'Avarice (Deventer, 1695)