Name

Thomas Erpenius

Original name

Thomas van Erpe

Main activity

Professor

Secondary activity

Title

Magister Artium

Name variations

Thomas van Erpe, Herpe"

Education place

Leiden, Paris, Saumur, Cambridge, Oxford, Venice, Heidelberg

Education institution

Leiden University

Activity place

Leiden

Activity institution

Leiden University

Activity start date

1613

Activity end date

1624

Place of birth

Gorinchem, Gorkum

Date of birth

1584

Place of death

Leiden

Date of death

1624

Bibliographical references

Gerardus Joannes Vossius, Oratio in obitum Clarissimi ac praestantissimi viri, Thomae Erpenii [...] (Lugduni Batavorum: Ex officina Erpeniana, 1625); M. Th. Houtsma, Uit de oostersche correspondentie van Th. Erpenius, Jac. Golius en Lev. Warner (Amsterdam: Johannes Müller, 1887), ; Wilhelmina M. C. Juynboll, Zeventiende-eeuwsche Beoefenaars van het Arabisch in Nederland (Utrecht: Kemink en Zoon, 1931), 59-118; Robert Jones, "Thomas Erpenius (1584-1624) on the Value of the Arabic Language", in Manuscripts of the Middle East, 1 (1986), pp. 15-25; Alastair Hamilton, "Isaac Casaubon the Arabist", in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 72 (2009), pp. 143-168; Arnoud Vrolijk, "The Prince of Arabists and His Many Errors. Thomas Erpenius’s Image of Joseph Scaliger and the Edition of the Proverbia Arabica (1614)", in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 73 (2010), 297-325; Alastair Hamilton, "The Long Apprenticeship: Casaubon and Arabic", in Anthony Grafton and Johanna Weinberg, “I have always loved the Holy Tongue.” Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Scholarship (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011), pp. 293-306; Arnoud Vrolijk and Richard van Leeuwen, Alastair Hamilton, tr., Arabic Studies in the Netherlands: A Short History in Portraits, 1580–1950 (Leiden: Brill, 2013); Arnoud Vrolijk and Johann Weinberg, "Thomas Erpenius, " ; Robert Jones, Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020); Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg, ""

Descriptive card

Thomas Erpenius is virtually the first professor of Arabic at Leiden University. He was appointed the extraordinary professor of Arabic in 1613.

Entry author

Kentaro Inagaki