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          Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje () was one of the most famous orientalists of the first decades of the twentieth century.!

          Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

          Dutch Orientalist (1857–1936)

          Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

          Dutch scholar Snouck Hurgronje.

          Born(1857-02-08)8 February 1857
          Oosterhout, Netherlands
          Died26 June 1936(1936-06-26) (aged 79)
          Leiden, Netherlands
          OccupationProfessor, author, spy, colonial advisor
          NationalityDutch

          Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈkrɪstijaːnˈsnukɦʏrˈɣrɔɲə]; 8 February 1857 – 26 June 1936) was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and advisor on native affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies.

          Born in Oosterhout in 1857, he became a theology student at Leiden University in 1874.

          The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (–) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time.

        1. The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (–) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time.
        2. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was born on the 8th of February in the Dutch city of Oosterhout.
        3. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje () was one of the most famous orientalists of the first decades of the twentieth century.
        4. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was born on Sunday, 8 February in Oosterhout, Brabant, in his family home on the Heuvelstraat.
        5. Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (), a Dutch scholar of Islam, served as a “military anthropologist” during the Aceh war in the Dutch East Indies.

          6. He received his doctorate at Leiden in 1880 with his dissertation 'Het Mekkaansche Feest' ("The Festivities of Mecca"). He became a professor at the Leiden School for Colonial Civil Servants in 1881.

          Snouck, who was fluent in Arabic, through mediation with the Ottoman governor in Jeddah,