Jan Jacob Schultens

Jan Jacob Schultens 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, 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.