Johannes Harlemius
Dutch Jesuit Bible scholar and hebraist
About Johannes Harlemius
Lived 1537 – 1578 (aged 40–41). Johannes Harlemius was a biblical scholar, hebraist, university teacher and catholic theologian.
Johan Willemsz, latinized Johannes Harlemius (1538–1578), was a Dutch Jesuit and Hebraist from Haarlem who taught at the Jesuit house of studies in Leuven. He briefly taught Hebrew at the Collegium Trilingue (1567–1568). An expert on the Old Testament, he advised on both the Plantin Polyglot and Lucas Brugensis's revision of the Leuven Vulgate (1574).
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Dutch Jesuit Bible scholar and hebraist (1538-1578)
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Johannes Harlemius was born in 1537 in Haarlem.
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Johannes Harlemius died on 1 October 1578 in Leuven.
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Johannes Harlemius was a biblical scholar, hebraist, university teacher and catholic theologian.
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Johannes Harlemius's recorded nationality: Habsburg Netherlands.
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