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 (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).