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Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort (c. 1715–1761) was a Dutch Hebrew professor, responsible for translating an Indian version of the Hebrew New Testament and a Hebrew Quran. Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was born Jewish between 1714 and 1717 in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He converted to Catholicism in December 1745 in Aachen. He studied briefly philosophy at the University of Leipzig with professor Johann Friedrich May in 1753. In 1754 he was enlisted by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to work as a professor of Hebrew Language at the Seminary of Colombo, Ceylon. In 1756 he traveled to Cochin, India, where he was commissioned by Ezekiel Rahabi to finish the translation of the Hebrew New Testament (1741-1756), which Claudius Buchanan took with him to England and currently resides in the Cambr

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rdfs:comment	Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort (c. 1715–1761) was a Dutch Hebrew professor, responsible for translating an Indian version of the Hebrew New Testament and a Hebrew Quran. Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was born Jewish between 1714 and 1717 in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He converted to Catholicism in December 1745 in Aachen. He studied briefly philosophy at the University of Leipzig with professor Johann Friedrich May in 1753. In 1754 he was enlisted by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to work as a professor of Hebrew Language at the Seminary of Colombo, Ceylon. In 1756 he traveled to Cochin, India, where he was commissioned by Ezekiel Rahabi to finish the translation of the Hebrew New Testament (1741-1756), which Claudius Buchanan took with him to England and currently resides in the Cambr (en)
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birth place	Dordrecht Netherlands
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dcterms:subject	Translators of the New Testament into Hebrew Jewish Dutch history Year of birth uncertain People of Dutch Ceylon Translators to Hebrew 1710s births Jewish Indian history Quranic translation 1761 deaths Leipzig University alumni Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka People from Dordrecht
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Cambridge University Library Translators of the New Testament into Hebrew Jewish Dutch history Bible translations into Hebrew University of Leipzig Year of birth uncertain Colombo Rahabi Ezekiel Claudius Buchanan People of Dutch Ceylon Library of Congress Translators to Hebrew 1710s births Catholicism Washington, D.C. Aachen Jewish Indian history Dutch Ceylon Dutch East India Company Quranic translation 1761 deaths Leipzig University alumni Converts to Roman Catholicism from Judaism Dutch expatriates in Sri Lanka People from Dordrecht Dordrecht Kochi Netherlands Surah
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Friedrich_May
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known for	Hebrew Quran of the Library of Congress, rabbinical Hebrew New Testament from Cochin (en)
nationality	Dutch (en)
occupation	Professor of Hebrew Language (en)
has abstract	Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort (c. 1715–1761) was a Dutch Hebrew professor, responsible for translating an Indian version of the Hebrew New Testament and a Hebrew Quran. Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was born Jewish between 1714 and 1717 in Dordrecht, Netherlands. He converted to Catholicism in December 1745 in Aachen. He studied briefly philosophy at the University of Leipzig with professor Johann Friedrich May in 1753. In 1754 he was enlisted by the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to work as a professor of Hebrew Language at the Seminary of Colombo, Ceylon. In 1756 he traveled to Cochin, India, where he was commissioned by Ezekiel Rahabi to finish the translation of the Hebrew New Testament (1741-1756), which Claudius Buchanan took with him to England and currently resides in the Cambridge University Library. Ezekiel Rahabi also commissioned van Dort as the translator of the Hebrew Quran (1757-1761), which resides in the Library of Congress in Washington. Van Dort is further known for his 1757 translations of the excerpts of the chronicles of the Jews of Cochin. Van Dort died in 1761, at the age of 46. (en)
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