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6257571911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 23 — Reland, Adrian

RELAND, ADRIAN (1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist, was born at Ryp, studied at Utrecht and Leiden, and was professor of Oriental languages successively at Harderwijk (1699) and Utrecht (1701). His most important works were Palaestina ex veteribus monumentis illustrata (Utrecht, 1714), and Antiquitates sacrae veterum Hebraeorum. (See also Burman, Traj. Erud., P.z96 seq.).