(bron: wikipedia)Nicolas Cleynaerts (Clenardus or Clenard) (5 December 1495 – 1542) was a Flemish grammarian and traveler. He was born in Diest, in the Duchy of Brabant.
Cleynaerts was a follower of Jan Driedo. Educated at the University of Leuven, he was ordained a priest. He also became a professor of Latin, which he taught by the conversational method.
A desire to read the Koran led him to try to establish a connection between Hebrew and Arabic. These studies resulted in... meer
