Johan Willemsz, latinized Johannes Harlemius (1538–1578), was a Dutch

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and

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from

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who taught at the Jesuit house of studies in

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. He briefly taught Hebrew at the

Collegium Trilingue The Collegium Trilingue, often also called Collegium trium linguarum, or, after its creator Collegium Buslidianum (, ), is a university that was founded in 1517 under the patronage of the humanist, Hieronymus van Busleyden. The three languages tau ...

(1567–1568). An expert on the

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, he advised on both the

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(1573) and

Lucas Brugensis Franciscus Lucas Brugensis or François Luc de Bruges (1548/49–1619) was a Roman Catholic biblical exegete and textual critic Textual criticism is a branch of textual scholarship, philology, and literary criticism that is concerned with th ...

's revision of the

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(1574).Wim François, "Augustine and the Golden Age of Biblical Scholarship in Louvain (1550–1650)", in ''Shaping the Bible in the Reformation: Books, Scholars and Their Readers in the Sixteenth Century'', edited by Bruce Gordon and Matthew McLean (Leiden, 2012), pp. 239-241.

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