Louis de Dieu


Louis de Dieu 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. He declined the chair of theology and oriental languages at Utrecht.

Works

  • Compendium Grammaticae Hebraicae et dictionnariolum praecipuarum radicum
  • Apocalypsis S. Joannis syriace, ex manuscripto exemplari bibliothecae Josephi Scaligeri deprompta, edita caractere syriaco et hebraeo, cum versione latina, graeco textu et notis
  • Grammatica trilinguis, Hebraica, Syriaca, et Chaldaica
  • Rudimenta linguae persicae ; a Persian grammar
  • Grammatica Linguarum Orientalium, ex recensione Dav. Clodii ; four grammarshebraic, syriac, chaldaic and persian.
  • Critica sacra, sive animadversiones in loca quaedam difficiliora Veteris et Novi Testam ; commentary on the Old Testament and the New Testament
  • Aphorismi theologici
  • ''Traite contre l'Avarice''