Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy

Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy (21 February 1820 – 29 April 1883) was a Dutch scholar of French (Huguenot) origin. He was an Orientalist scholar of Arabic language, history and literature.

Biography

Reinhart Pieter Anne Dozy was born on 21 February 1820 in Leiden, Netherlands. The Dozys, like other contemporary French families, emigrated to the Low Countries after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, but some of the former appear to have settled in the Netherlands as early as 1647. Dozy studied at the University of Leiden, obtained the degree of doctor in 1844, was appointed an extraordinary professor of history in 1850, and professor in 1857. Dozy was a correspondent of the Royal Institute between 1848 and 1851. He became a member of the successor institute, the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1855.

Dozy died in Leiden on 29 April 1883.

Assessment

According to Edward Said, despite the "enormous labors" represented by Dozy's work, it was characterized by an "impressive antipathy [...] to the Orient, Islam, and the Arabs".