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Enciclopedia Cattolica Vol. VII, 1951 Sacred Scripture Exegetes and biblicists

Leusden, Johannes

By Arduino Kleinhans

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LEUSDEN, JOHANNES. - Dutch Orientalist, b. 26 April 1624, d. 30 September 1699 in Utrecht, where he was professor of Hebrew. He was not an original mind nor a scholar of the first rank, but his many philological works have been useful for the understanding of the Old and New Testaments.

He wrote among other things: Philologus Hebraeus (Utrecht 1656, 1672, 1695; Amsterdam 1686); Philologus Hebraeomixtus (Utrecht 1663; Leiden 1682, 1699); Onomasticum sacrum (Utrecht 1665); Philologus Hebraeo-Graecus (Utrecht 1670; Leiden 1685, 1695). The three Philologi were reprinted at Basel in 3 vols. in 1730. Other works: Compendium graecum Novi Testamenti (Utrecht 1674, 1677, 1682, 1702); Compendium biblicum Iatius Veteris Testamenti (Utrecht 1674, Halle 1736 and many other editions); Clavis graeca Novi Testamenti (Utrecht 1672). In the Biblia Hebraica cum praefatione (Amsterdam 1659-61), the Hebrew text was collated with the rabbinic Bibles of Bomberg and with manuscript codices; in this edition there appears for the first time the division of the text into verses, and this text was repeated for the school editions by E. van der Hoogt (Amsterdam 1705), by J. Jahn (Vienna 1806), by A. Hahn (Leipzig 1831) and many other times.

L. also published: Samuelis Bochardi opera omnia (Leiden 1675, 1692), Martini Pooli synopsis criticorum (Utrecht 1686), and Johannis Lightfoot opera omnia (ibid. 1699).

Bibliography3 works
BIBL.: E. Vigouroux, s. v. in DB, IV, col. 106 ff.; B. Walde, s. v. in LThK, VI, col. 534; H. Höpfli - B. Gut, Introductions generali in Sacram Scriptorum, 4th ed., Rome 1941, no. 345, p. 248.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII (1951), col. 1229.

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Kleinhans, Arduino. “Leusden, johannes.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, col. 1229. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951. https://azioneromana.com/article/leusden-johannes.

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Kleinhans, Arduino. “Leusden, johannes.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1951, col. 1229. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/leusden-johannes.

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  author    = {Kleinhans, Arduino},
  title     = {Leusden, johannes},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
  volume    = {VII},
  pages     = {1229},
  note      = {Cited by column},
  publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
  year      = {1951},
  url       = {https://azioneromana.com/article/leusden-johannes}
}

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