Hulsius, Anton

Hulsius, Anton a Dutch divine, was born in 1615, at Kilda, in the duchy of Bergen. In 1644 he was preacher and professor of Hebrew at Breda, afterwards professor of theology and of Hebrew at Leyden, and died February 27, 1685. He wrote, Disputatio Epistolica cum Jacobo Abendana super Haggaei 2:9 (Leyden, 1666): — Abrahamelis Comm. in LXX Hebdomadibus Danielis cum Confutatione (1653): — Authentia Codicis Ebraei Sacri Contra Criminationes Is. Voss Vindicata (1662): — Theologia Judaica (1653): — Nomenclator Biblicus Hebraeo-Latinus (1659): — Compendium Lexici Hebraici (1674): — Liber Psalmorum Haebr. cum Annotationibus (1650): — Oratio de Linguae Hebraicae Origine et Propagatione (1641). See Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:416 sq.; Jocher, Allgemeines Gelehrten-Lexikon, s.v.; Steinschneider, Bibl. Handbuch, s.v. (B.P.)