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Carl Brockelmann

1868 - 1956

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Brockelmann has received more than 46,213 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Brockelmann is the 78th most popular linguist (down from 73rd in 2019), the 2,678th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,515th in 2019) and the 17th most popular German Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Carl Brockelmann ranks 78 out of 161Before him are Max Nettlau, John Chadwick, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Jan Mukařovský, Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, and Louis de Beaufront. After him are Joshua Fishman, Johannes Aavik, Holger Pedersen, Johannes Schmidt, Adolf Erman, and Đuro Daničić.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Carl Brockelmann ranks 94Before him are Giovanni Giacometti, Keisuke Okada, Marie Dressler, Edgar Lee Masters, Alfred Fowler, and Arturo Alessandri. After him are George Ellery Hale, Oskar Merikanto, Cai Yuanpei, Mihailo Petrović, Lauri Ingman, and Hovhannes Kajaznuni. Among people deceased in 1956, Carl Brockelmann ranks 92Before him are Victor Young, Walter Gieseking, Charles Joughin, Meghnad Saha, Heinrich Barkhausen, and André Marty. After him are Louis Rosier, Marcel Griaule, Max Beerbohm, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Évariste Lévi-Provençal, and Stan Ockers.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Brockelmann ranks 2,678 out of 6,142Before him are Ernst Wilhelm von Brücke (1819), Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony (1443), Adam Kraft (1450), Gerardus Vossius (1577), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), and Martin Walser (1927). After him are Sigmar Gabriel (1959), John II, Count Palatine of Simmern (1492), Rainer Bonhof (1952), Özlem Türeci (1967), Ricardo Wolf (1887), and George Mosse (1918).

Among LINGUISTS In Germany

Among linguists born in Germany, Carl Brockelmann ranks 17Before him are Hermann Paul (1846), Karl Lachmann (1793), August Leskien (1840), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Hugo Schuchardt (1842), and Karl Brugmann (1849). After him are Johannes Schmidt (1843), Adolf Erman (1854), Konrad Duden (1829), Alexander Gode (1906), August Immanuel Bekker (1785), and Heinrich Hübschmann (1848).