GOLIUS  or (GOHL), JACOBUS (1596-1667), Dutch Orientalist, was

born at the Hague in 1596 , and studied at the university of Leiden, where in Arabic and other Eastern languages he was the most distinguished pupil of Erpenius . In 1622 he accompanied the Dutch embassy to Morocco, and on his return he was chosen to succeed Erpenius (1624) . In the following year he set out on a Syrian and Arabian tour from which he did not return until 1629 . The remainder of his life was spent at Leiden where he held the chair of mathematics as well as that of Arabic . He died on the 28th of September 1667 . His most important work is the Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, fol., Leiden, 1653, which, based on the Sihah of Al-Jauhari, was only superseded by the corresponding work of Freytag . Among his earlier publications may be mentioned editions of various Arabic texts (Proverbia quaedam Alis, imperatoris Muslemici, et Carmen Tograipoetae doctissimi, necnon dissertatio quaedam Aben Synae, 1629; and A hmedis Arabsiadae vitae et rerum gestarum Timuri, qui vulgo Tamer, lanes dicitur, historia, 1636) . In 1656 he published a new edition, with considerable additions, of the Grammatica Arabica of Erpenius . After his death, there was found among his papers a Dictionarium Persico-Latinum which was published, with additions, by Edmund Castell in his Lexicon heptaglotton (1669) . Golius also edited, translated and annotated the astronomical treatise of Alfragan (Muhammedis, filii Ketiri Ferganensis, qui vulgo Alfraganus dicitur, elementa astronomica Arabice et Latine, 1669) .