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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Translator of an Indian version of the Hebrew New Testament and a Hebrew Quran}}<br />
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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort<br />
| birth_date = 1712<br />
| birth_place = [[The Hague]], [[Dutch Republic]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|1761|1712}} <br />
| alma_mater = [[University of Leipzig]]<br />
| occupation = Professor of Hebrew Language<br />
| known_for = Hebrew Quran of the Library of Congress, rabbinical Hebrew New Testament from Cochin<br />
}}<br />
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'''Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort''' (1712–1761)<ref name=MVD>{{cite book|title=Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort, a Jewish-Christian Professor of the Dutch East India Company|author=van Dort, Mascha|date=June 2025|publisher=Mascha van Dort |isbn=979-8884084872}}</ref> was a Dutch Hebrew professor, responsible for translating an Indian version of the Hebrew New Testament and a Hebrew Quran.<br />
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Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was born Jewish in 1712 in [[The Hague]], [[Netherlands]].<ref name=MVD/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://edoc.tips/download/a-historical-appraisal-of-jewish-presence-in-sri-lanka-fiona-kumari_pdf|title=A Historical Appraisal of Jewish Presence in Sri Lanka|first=Fiona Kumari|last=Campbell|publisher=Griffith Law and the School of Human Services, [[Griffith University]]|date=2007|page=}}</ref> He converted to [[Catholicism]] in December 1745 in [[Aachen]].<ref name=MVD/> He studied briefly philosophy at the [[University of Leipzig]] with professor [[:de:Johann Friedrich May|Johann Friedrich May]] in 1753.<ref name=MVD/> In 1754<ref name=MVD/> he was enlisted by the [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) to work as a professor of Hebrew Language at the Seminary of [[Colombo]], [[Dutch Ceylon|Ceylon]].<ref name=MVD/><ref name=AOS>{{cite journal|journal=The Exploration of the Jewish Antiquities of Cochin on the Malabar Coast|first=Walter J.|last=Fischel|title= Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=87|number=3|date=July–September 1967|pages=230–248|publisher=[[American Oriental Society]]|doi=10.2307/597717 |jstor=597717 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/597717|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In 1756 he traveled to [[Kochi|Cochin]],<ref name=MVD/> India, where he was commissioned by [[Rahabi Ezekiel|Ezekiel Rahabi]] to finish the translation of the [[Bible translations into Hebrew|Hebrew New Testament]] (1741–1756),<ref name=LoC>{{cite web|title=Commissioner, purpose, translators, copyist and age of the Hebrew New Testament of Cochin and the Quran of the Library of Congress|author1=van Dort, Mascha|author2=Bar-Ilan, Meir|date=2021|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353131337}}</ref> 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),<ref name=LoC/><ref>{{cite journal|author=Weinstein, Myron M.|date=1972|journal=A Hebrew Quran Manuscript|title=Studies in Bibliography and Booklore|volume=10|number=1/2|pages=19–52 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27943437|publisher=[[Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion]]|jstor=27943437 }}</ref> which resides in the [[Library of Congress]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington]].<ref>{{cite web|title=LC Hebr. Ms 183|url=https://www.loc.gov/rr/amed/hs/HebrewManuscriptsPdf/LC%20Hebr.%20MS%20183.pdf|publisher=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> He also arranged the printing of the prayer books of the Jews of Cochin, India, in Amsterdam in 1757, through the office of Tobias Boas ([[:nl:Tobias Boas|nl]]), whom he knew from his childhood.<ref name=MVD/><ref name=Visit>{{cite journal|journal=Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort’s Scholarly Visit to Cochin|author=van Dort, Mascha|title= Studia Rosenthaliana|volume=50|number=2|date=December 2024|pages=120–138|publisher=[[Amsterdam University Press]]|doi=10.5117/SR2024.2.002.DORT}}</ref> Van Dort is further known for his 1757 translations of the excerpts of the chronicles of the Jews of Cochin.<ref name=AOS/><ref>{{cite book|author=Eichorn, J. E.|title=Allegemeine Biblothek der Biblischen Literatur|volume=1|date=1788|place=Leipzig|page=929}}</ref><br />
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Van Dort died in 1761, at the age of 48.<ref name=MVD/><br />
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