Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
A.J. Wensinck
Description area
Dates of existence
1882 - 1939
History
Arent Jen Wensinck, from 1912 until 1927, was professor of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac at the University of Leiden, and in 1927 he succeeded Snouck Hurgronje as professor of Arabic and Islam at the same university, at which post he remained until his death.