Adriaan Reland (also known as Adriaen Reeland/Reelant, Hadrianus Relandus) (July 17 1676, De Rijp - February 51718, Utrecht ) was a Dutchscholar, cartographer and philologist. Reland was the son of Johannes Reland, a protestant minister, and Aagje Prins in the small North Holland village of De Rijp. Adriaan's brother, Peter (1678-1714) would become an influential lawyer in Haarlem. Reeland first studied in Amsterdam and enrolled at University of Utrecht in 1693. After obtaining his PhD in Utrecht he moved to Leiden where he was chosen to tutor the son of Hans Wilem Bentinck who would become the 1st Earl of Portland. The latter invited him to move to England, but Reland declined because of the declining health of his father.
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