Adriaan Reland
Dutch scholar
Born on: July 17, 1676Died on: February 5, 1718
Aged: 41 years 203 days (498 months)
Birth Sign: Cancer
Adriaan Reland was a Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist. Even though he never left the Netherlands, he made significant contributions to Middle Eastern and Asian linguistics and cartography, including Persia, Japan and Palestine during the biblical ages.
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