Jacob Hoftijzer

{{short description|Dutch scholar}}

Jacob Hoftijzer ({{Clarify|date=November 2023|reason=This date format is ambiguous. Does this mean January 11, 1926 – November 8, 2011 or November 1, 1926 – August 11, 2011?|text=11.01.1926—08.11.2011}}) was a scholar of Semitic languages. He was Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, the Israelite Antiquities and Ugaritic at Leiden University until his retirement in 1991.{{cite book|last1=van der Heide|first1=A.|title=Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Syntax: Presented to Professor J. Hoftijzer on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday|date=1991|publisher=Brill|page=vii|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UDRE8dCVMAgC&pg=PR7|accessdate=31 January 2017|chapter=Preface|isbn=90-04-09520-9 }} That year, a Festschrift was published in his honour, Studies in Hebrew and Aramaic Syntax: Presented to Professor J. Hoftijzer on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, which included contributions from Jan P. Fokkelman and Takamitsu Muraoka.