About Willem Surenhuis
Lived 1663 – 1729 (aged 65–66). Willem Surenhuis was a Dutch university teacher, orientalist, hebraist and translator.
Willem Surenhuis (also Surenhuys or Surenhusius, c.1664 in Rottum – 1729) was a Dutch Christian scholar of Hebrew, known for his Latin translation of the Mishnah, the first of the complete work. It was published from 1698 to 1703. The son of a German-born minister, he studied at the University of Groningen and later taught in Amsterdam.
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Dutch scholar
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Willem Surenhuis was born in 1663 in Ommelanden.
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Willem Surenhuis died on 20 August 1729 in Amsterdam.
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Willem Surenhuis was a university teacher, orientalist, hebraist and translator.
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Willem Surenhuis was Dutch.
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