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ADRIAN RELAND (1676-1718)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 58 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ADRIAN RELAND (1676-1718)  , Dutch Orientalist, was born at Ryp, studied at Utrecht and
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Leiden, and was professor of
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Oriental
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languages successively at Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701) . His most important
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works were Palaestina ex veteribus monumentis illustrata (Utrecht, 1714), and Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum . (See also Burman, Traj . Erud., p.296 seq.) . I Animadvers. criticae in Hamzae hist. regni Joctanidarum," in Eichhorn's Mon . Ant . Hist . Ar., 1775 . For this estimate of Reiske as a Greek scholar the writer is indebted to Prof . U. v . Wilamowitz-Moellendorff .

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