GOEJE, MICHAEL JAN DE (1836-1909), Dutch orien talist, was born in Friesland in 1836. He devoted himself at an early age to the study of oriental languages and became espe cially proficient in Arabic, under the guidance of Dozy and Juynboll, to whom he was afterwards an intimate friend and colleague. He took his degree of doctor at Leyden in 1860, and then studied for a year in Oxford, where he examined and col lated the Bodleian MSS. of Idrisi (part being published in 1866, in collaboration with R. P. Dozy, as Description de l'A f rique et de l'Espagne) . About the same time he wrote Me moires de l'histoire et de la geographie orientales, and edited Expugnatio regionum. In 1883, on the death of Dozy, he became Arabic professor at Leyden, retiring in 1906. He died on May 17, 1909. He wielded a great influence during his long professoriate not only over his pupils, but over theologians and eastern adminis trators who attended his lectures, and his many editions of Arabic texts have been of the highest value to scholars, the most important being his great edition of Tabari.
Among his chief works are Fragmenta historicorum Arabicorum (1869-71) ; Diwan of Moslim-ibn-al-Walid (1875) ; Bibliotheca geographorum Arabicorum (1870-94) ; Annals of Tabari (1879-1901) ; edition of Ibn Qutaiba's biographies (1904) ; of the travels of Ibn Jubaye (1907, 5th vol. of Gibb Memorial) . He was also the chief editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam (vols. i.—iii.), and contributed many articles to periodicals. He wrote for the 9th and the iith edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.