the benefit of seeing these Arabic dictionaries. Golius's dictionary was later improved and expanded by Georg Freytag's Arabic-to-Latin dictionary in 1837. References Biography of Jacobus Golius at the Baheyeldin Dynasty site Lexicon Arabico-Latinum, by Jacobus Golius, year 1653, about 1500 pages 1596 births 1667 deaths 17th-century Dutch mathematicians Dutch orientalists Dutch Arabists Scientists from The Hague Academic staff of Leiden University