About Dionies Vos
Lived 1612 – 1633 (aged 20–21). Dionies Vos was a Dutch humanist, classical philologist, translator, arabist, classical scholar and librarian.
Dionies Vos (1612 – 25 October 1633), often known by his Latin name Dionysius Vossius, was a Dutch translator.
He was the son of Gerardus Vossius and the brother of Isaac Vossius. Born in Dordrecht, he studied Ancient Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Syriac and Arabic. Vossius published his first Arabic dictionary at the age of 16.
Later he published a Latin translation of a tractate on idolatry from the Mishneh Torah by Maimonides, which he had annotated.
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Who was Dionies Vos?
Dutch humanist
When was Dionies Vos born?
Dionies Vos was born in 1612 in Dordrecht.
When did Dionies Vos die?
Dionies Vos died on 25 October 1633 in Amsterdam.
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Dionies Vos was a humanist, classical philologist, translator, arabist, classical scholar and librarian.
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Dionies Vos was Dutch.
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