Carl Brockelmann

Who was Carl Brockelmann?

Carl Brockelmann, 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 which included all writers in Arabic to 1937, and remains the fundamental reference volume for all Arabic literature, apart from the Christian Arabic texts.

He also published Syrische Grammatik mit Litteratur, Chrestomathie und Glossar, Semitische Sprachwissenschaft, Lexicon syriacum, and Arabische Grammatik.