Coddeeus, Gulielmus

(Willem van der Codde) a Dutch Orientalist, born at Leyden in 1575, was appointed in 1601 to the chair of Hebrew in his native city, but deprived in 1619 for refusing to subscribe to the statutes of the synod of Dort, and died about 1630, His principal works are, Notae ad Grammaticam Hebrceam (Leyden, 1612): — Hoseas Propheta cum Commentariis, etc. (ibid. 1621): — Fragmenta Comnediarum Aristophanis (ibid. 1625). See Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Generale, s.v.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten- Lexikon, s.v.