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Lambert Hermansz ten Kate, b. 23 January 1674 at [[Amsterdam (Noord-Holland, Netherlands)|Amsterdam]], d. there 14 December 1731, was the son of Herman ten Kate and Sara Blaupot. He was baptized in the [[Lamist Mennonite Church (Amsterdam, Netherlands)|Lamist church]] on 18 April 1706. Like his father he was a grain dealer in Amsterdam. He was one of the educated and generally gifted men, of whom the Amsterdam Mennonite Church had a great many at the time. He was a linguist, a forerunner of Jakob Grimm, who understood the value of his work (Kalff, 436). In his main work, <em>Aenleiding tot de kennisse van het verheven deel der Nederduytse sprake </em>(Amsterdam, 1723), his basis was not the written language and grammar, but the living speech; he gives a number of conversations in various dialects, which he sees in a remote connection, and for which he drew up a table of sounds. This work proves him to have been a man with a sense of reality, and makes him the originator of the science of comparative languages in the Low Countries.

He also published two devotional books: <em>Drie gewichtige Bedenkingen des Gemaeds; benevens den Weg tot Heil </em>(Amsterdam, 1728) and <em>Het Leven van onzen Heiland Jezus Christus </em>(Amsterdam, 1732).
= Bibliography =
Winkel, J. te. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Ontwikkelingsgang der Nederlandsche Letterkunde </em>III, 392-96

Kalff, Gerrit. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Geschiedenis der Nederlandsche Letterkunde</em> / Groningen : J.B. Wolters, 1906-1912: VI, 554. 

Visscher, H. and L. A. van Langeraad.<em class="gameo_bibliography"> Biographisch Woordenboek von Protestantsche Godgeleerden in Nederland, A-L</em>The Hague: J. P. de Bie and J. Loosjes, 1903-:V, 670 f.

Molhuysen, P. C. and P. J. Blok. <em class="gameo_bibliography">Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek.</em> v. 1-10. Leiden, 1911-193:<em class="gameo_bibliography">. </em>V, 295 f.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. ''Mennonitisches Lexikon'', 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967<em class="gameo_bibliography">: </em>II, 469.
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