Quotes:Dieu, Louis de

Zirkoff, Boris

Dieu, Louis de. Belgian theologian and Orientalist, b. at Flessingue, April 7, 1570; d. at Leyden, Dec. 23, 1642; was the son of the Belgian theologian, Daniel de Dieu (1540-1609). Became clergyman in native city, then Prof, at Waloon Coll., Leyden. Devoted himself to the study and the teaching of Semitic language:· and was the first one to make a comparative study of Hebrew, Syriac 367 and Chaldean. Published the first Persian Grammar, and utilized his philological knowledge to determine the correct meaning of many controversial passages in both Testaments. Works: Compendium grammaticae hebraïca, syriaca et chaldaica, Leyden, 1639.—Rudimenta linguae persicae, ibid., 1639.—Critica sacra, etc., Amsterdam, 1693, fol.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 366-367