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Carl Brockelmann

1868 - 1956

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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 (first published 1898–1902) ('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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Brockelmann is the 76th most popular linguist (up from 77th in 2019), the 2,649th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,748th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Carl Brockelmann ranks 76 out of 214. Before him are Friedrich Christian Diez, Paul Ariste, Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Émile Littré, Alexander Gode, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. After him are Đuro Daničić, Vasili Eroshenko, Robert Morrison, Morris Swadesh, Max Nettlau, and Eugenio Coșeriu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Carl Brockelmann ranks 100. Before him are Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Josep Comas i Solà, Alfred Fowler, Lauri Ingman, Otto von Lossow, and Cai Yuanpei. After him are Hélène de Pourtalès, Max Slevogt, Oskar Merikanto, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, Giovanni Giacometti, and Karl Röderer. Among people deceased in 1956, Carl Brockelmann ranks 94. Before him are Alexander Fadeyev, Israel Zolli, Auguste Chevalier, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia, and André Marty. After him are Jimmie Angel, Clifford Brown, Norman L. Bowen, Marcel Griaule, Frigyes Riesz, and Victor Young.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Brockelmann ranks 2,650 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Ziegler (1892), Rudi Altig (1937), Friedrich Krupp (1787), Elwin Bruno Christoffel (1829), Johann Liss (1597), and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918). After him are Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow (1782), Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg (1854), Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine (1809), Ernst von Salomon (1902), Robert Enke (1977), and Eugen Meindl (1892).

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Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Carl Brockelmann ranks 18. Before him are Hugo Schuchardt (1842), Karl Lachmann (1793), Karl Brugmann (1849), August Leskien (1840), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), and Alexander Gode (1906). After him are Johannes Schmidt (1843), Konrad Duden (1829), Adolf Erman (1854), Georg Curtius (1820), Heinrich Hübschmann (1848), and August Immanuel Bekker (1785).

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