Carl Brockelmann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl Brockelmann

German orientalist

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1868

Place of Birth: Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Date of Death: 06-May-1956

Profession: university teacher, orientalist, linguist

Nationality: Poland, Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carl Brockelmann (17 September 1868 – 6 May 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 (1937–1949) ('History of Arabic 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 by Georg 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 eleventh edition of the grammar of Albert Socin, previously revised by Brockelmann several times).