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Carl Brockelmann
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Carl Brockelmann

كارل بروكلمان

Notable figure 1868–1956 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 105, 168 · Second source: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, authority record (GND 118862014): Brockelmann, Carl, born 17 Sep. 1868, died 6 May 1956

Field: Literature and comparative grammar

Affiliation

Philologist; author of Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur

Biography

Born in Rostock, he taught at Berlin, Königsberg, Halle and Breslau. He wrote the Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (1898–1902, with supplements 1937–1942) and the Grundriss der vergleichenden Grammatik der semitischen Sprachen (Berlin 1908–1913), and edited al-Kisaʾi's treatise on the errors of common speech (1898).

His words in «What They Said About the Arabs and Arabic»