About Heinrich Hornkens
Lived 1501 – 1612 (aged 110–111). Heinrich Hornkens was a lexicographer and linguist.
Henricus Hornkens, sometimes cited as Henri or Heinrich (died 1612), was a 16th-century priest and lexicographer.
Life Hornkens served Philip II of Spain and Philip III of Spain as a court chaplain. In 1598 he accompanied the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia to the Low Countries, where he became dean of the church of St Gummarus in Lier, Duchy of Brabant. He compiled a French-Spanish-Latin dictionary published in Brussels in 1599 and used by César Oudin in his own lexicographical work. He died in 1612.
Work Recueil de dictionnaires françoys, espagnols et latins (Brussels: Rutger Velpius, 1599) Available on Google Books
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Hispanist and lexicographer
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Heinrich Hornkens was born in 1501.
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Heinrich Hornkens died in 1612.
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Heinrich Hornkens was a lexicographer and linguist.
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