- Carl Brockelmann
Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956), German Semiticist, was the foremost orientalist of his generation. He was a professor at the universities in Breslau,
Berlin and, from 1903, Königsberg. He is best known for his multi-volume "Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur" (1898-1902)(History of Arab literature) which included all writers in Arabic to 1937, and remains the fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature, apart from the Christian Arabic texts (covered byGeorg Graf ).He also published "Syrische Grammatik mit Litteratur, Chrestomathie und Glossar" (1899), "Semitische Sprachwissenschaft" (1906), "Lexicon syriacum" (1928), and "Arabische Grammatik" (under his own name 1941, but this was the 11th edition of the grammar of
Albert Socin , previously revised by Brockelmann several times).Publications
* 1895: "Lexicon Syriacum". Berlin: Reuther & Reichard; Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark. [1995 edition: ISBN 3-487-01181-6]
* 1908-1913: "Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen". 2 vols. Berlin: Reuther and Reichard.
* 1950: "Abessinsche Studien". Berlin: Akademie Verlag.References
* [http://bc.ub.leidenuniv.nl/bc/olg/portret/content.html (Portrait gallery) Carl Brockelmann (1868-1956)] at
Leiden University Persondata
NAME=Brockelmann, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=German orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH=17 September 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH=Rostock
DATE OF DEATH=6 May 1956
PLACE OF DEATH=Halle
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