Author: BEETS, N.,
Title: Leven en karakter van Johannes Henricus van der Palm
Description: Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1842, (16)+183pp. uneven edges, paper on board binding, spine suffering, engraved frontispiece portrait by J.P. Lange after C.H. Hodges, fold out facsimile of his writing. Johannes Hendricus[1] van der Palm (17 July 1763 - 8 September 1840) was a Dutch linguist, professor of (i) oriental languages and Hebrew antiquities and (ii) sacred poetry and rhetoric at Leiden University, educationist, theologian, Dutch Reformed Church minister, Bible translator, politician and orator. He made major contributions in all these areas. This biography is written by his nephew by marriage Nicolaas Beets (13 September 1814 - 13 March 1903) who was a Dutch theologian, writer and poet. He published under the pseudonym, Hildebrand. Judaica.

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