Education
University of Rostock. University of Strasbourg (1538-1970). University of Wrocław.
linguist Orientalist university professor
University of Rostock. University of Strasbourg (1538-1970). University of Wrocław.
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 (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 11th edition of the grammar of Albert Socin, previously revised by Brockelmann several times).
Prussian Academy of Sciences. German Academy of Sciences at Berlin. Saxonian Academy of Sciences.
Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
Société Asiatique; American Oriental Society. Linguistic Society of America.
Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. Hungarian Academy of Sciences.