Henricus Hornkens

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Henricus Hornkens
Died1612
OccupationClergyman
LanguageFrench, Spanish, Latin
Period Baroque
GenreLexicography
Notable works Recueil de dictionnaires françoys, espagnols et latins (1599)

Henricus Hornkens, sometimes cited as Henri or Heinrich (died 1612), was a 16th-century priest and lexicographer.

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Life

Hornkens served Philip II of Spain and Philip III of Spain as a court chaplain. In 1598 he accompanied the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia to the Low Countries, where he became dean of the church of St Gummarus in Lier, Duchy of Brabant. He compiled a French-Spanish-Latin dictionary published in Brussels in 1599 and used by César Oudin in his own lexicographical work. He died in 1612. [1]

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References

  1. Émile Van Arenbergh, "Hornkens (Henri)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique , vol. 9 Archived 2016-12-27 at the Wayback Machine (Brussels, 1887), 519.