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Jacobus Golius

1596 - 1667

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Jacob Golius, born Jacob van Gool (1596 – September 28, 1667), was an Orientalist and mathematician based at the Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is primarily remembered as an Orientalist. He published Arabic texts in Arabic at Leiden, and did Arabic-to-Latin translations. His best-known work is an Arabic-to-Latin dictionary, Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (1653), which he sourced for the most part from the Sihah dictionary of Al-Jauhari and the Qamous dictionary of Fairuzabadi. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacobus Golius is the 705th most popular mathematician (down from 653rd in 2019), the 674th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 656th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Dutch Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Jacobus Golius ranks 705 out of 1,004. Before him are Svetlana Gannushkina, Daniel Quillen, Joseph-Alfred Serret, Benjamin Robins, Sylvestre François Lacroix, and Emil Julius Gumbel. After him are Gladys West, Claude Chevalley, Federigo Enriques, Nikoloz Muskhelishvili, Axel Thue, and Vladimir Levenshtein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1596, Jacobus Golius ranks 26. Before him are Thomas de Keyser, Ebba Brahe, Heinrich Scheidemann, John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and Bertuccio Valier.  Among people deceased in 1667, Jacobus Golius ranks 23. Before him are Giovanni Battista Zupi, Grégoire de Saint-Vincent, Franz Tunder, Melchiorre Cafà, John VI, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst, and Jean de Thévenot. After him are Johann von Rist, and Abraham Cowley.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Jacobus Golius ranks 674 out of 1,646. Before him are Jan van de Cappelle (1624), Stien Kaiser (1938), Leonardus Nardus (1868), Hans Ooft (1947), C. George Boeree (1952), and Lodewijk van den Berg (1932). After him are Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands (1966), Bep van Klaveren (1907), Gerrit Voorting (1923), Richard Krajicek (1971), Estella Agsteribbe (1909), and Bep Voskuijl (1919).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Netherlands

Among mathematicians born in Netherlands, Jacobus Golius ranks 12. Before him are Bartel Leendert van der Waerden (1903), Auguste Kerckhoffs (1835), Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856), Hendrik C. van de Hulst (1918), Willem 's Gravesande (1688), and Arend Heyting (1898). After him are Gustav de Vries (1866), Diederik Korteweg (1848), and Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (1918).

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