BEELEN, JOHANN THEODOR. — Exegete, born in Amsterdam on 12 January 1807, canon at Liège, doctor and professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he died on 31 March 1884.
Principal works: Chrestomathia rabbinica et chaldaica (3 vols., 1841–43); Liber Sapientiae graece secundum exemplar Vaticanum (1844); Dissertatio theologica, quae sententiam vulgo receptam, esse Sacrae Scripturae multiplicem interdum sensum litteralem, nullo fundamento satis firmo miti demonstrare conatur (1845); Interpretatio Epistolae s. Pauli ad Philippenses (1849, 2nd ed. 1852); Commentarius in Acta Apostolorum, cui integre adduntur textus graecus et latinus (2 vols., 1850–55, 2nd ed. 1864); Commentarius in Epistolam s. Pauli ad Romanos (1854); Grammatica graecitatis Novi Testamenti (1857). He also translated and composed many biblical works in Flemish, some of which remain in use. A. van der Heeren republished Het Boek der Psalmen, vertaald en uitgelegd (Bruges 1941).