Carl brockelmann biography
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Carl Brockelmann
German Semiticist (1868–1956)
Carl Brockelmann (17 Sep 1868 – 6 May well 1956) Germanic Semiticist, was the prime orientalist returns his reproduction. He was a university lecturer at depiction universities shoulder Breslau, Songwriter and, hold up 1903, Königsberg. He wreckage best memorable for his multi-volume Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur (first published 1898–1902) ('History warm Arabic literature') which objective all writers in Semitic to 1937, and relic the basic reference supply for diminution Arabic writings, apart flight the Christianly Arabic texts (covered near Georg Graf).
He besides published Syrische Grammatik stop Litteratur, Chrestomathie und Glossar (1899), Semitische Sprachwissenschaft (1906), Lexicon syriacum (1928), direct Arabische Grammatik (under his own name 1941, but this was the ordinal edition objection the grammar of Albert Socin, once revised manage without Brockelmann not too times).
Career
[edit]Brockelmann pursued Asiatic studies, typical philology, captain history encompass Rostock, Breslau, and Strasburg. He attained his Ph.D. in Strasburg, in 1890, under say publicly direction go along with Theodor Nöldeke, and his Dr. habil. degree fall Breslau sophisticated 1893. Imprison 1900 explicit was ordained to a chair be sold for Breslau, pledge 1903 explain Königsberg, envelop 1910 smile Halle, encumber 1922 play a part Berlin, deed in 1923 in Breslau again. Fr
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Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage: Electronic Edition
German Semitist. Brockelmann began the study of oriental languages as well as classical languages and history, first in Rostock and later in Breslau and Strasbourg. After earning his Ph.D. in Strasbourg in 1890 with a dissertation in Arabic studies, he became an assistant teacher at a gymnasium in the same city (1890–92). He earned his habilitation (an advanced university degree) at the University of Breslau in 1893 and became a privatdozent (lecturer) at the same institution (1893–1900). In 1895–96, he traveled to London and Constantinople to copy Arabic mss. which he intended to publish. He was appointed instructor of Arabic at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin (1900) and later professor at the universities of Breslau (1900–03), Königsberg (1903–10), Halle an der Saale (1910–22; Rector of the University in 1918/19), and Berlin (1922–23). In 1923 he returned to Breslau, where he was Rector of the University in 1932/33 and from where he retired in 1935. He returned to Halle in 1937 and continued his scholarly work with much intensity. After World War II, he accepted a position as librarian in Halle due to financial problems. In 1947, he was appointed professor of Turkish studies at Halle, a
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