Jan Jacob Schultens (19 September 1716 in Franeker – 27 November 1788 in Leiden) was a Dutch orientalist. He was the son of philologist Albert Schultens. In 1742 he obtained his doctorate in theology at Leiden, later serving as a professor of Oriental languages at Herborn (1744–1749),Hessian Biography Schulten, Johann Jakob and afterwards succeeded to his father's chair at Leiden. His son was the Dutch linguist Henry Albert Schultens.
Selected publications De utilitate dialectorum orientalium ad tuendam integritatem cod. hebr, 1742. Oratio de fructibus redundantibus ex penitiore linguarum orientalium cognitione, 1749. Bibliotheca Schultensiana, sive, Catalogus librorum, quos collegit vir clarissimus Johannes Jacobus Schultensius, 1780.Post Reformation Digital Library (publications) "The Albert and Jan Jacob Schultens Manuscript Collection", publisher: Princeton Theological Seminary Library, 1993.Google Books (publications)
References
External links Library of Congress — the source for the Dutch version of his name (listed as John James in the 1911 Britannica)