Siegmund Fraenkel (Semitist)

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Grave of Siegmund Fraenkel in the Old Jewish Cemetery in Breslau

Siegmund Fraenkel (born April 7, 1855 in Frankfurt (Oder) , † June 11, 1909 in Breslau ) was a German Semitist .

Life

Fraenkel was of Jewish origin. His father Daniel Fraenkel (1821–1890) was a rabbi, his mother Julie, née Rosenstein, daughter of a Berlin rabbi. Siegmund Fraenkel had eleven siblings, including: Max Fraenkel (1856–1926), architect and government master builder , James Fraenkel (1859–1935), founder and co-operator of the Berolinum sanatorium in Berlin-Lankwitz, and Martin Fraenkel (1863–1928) , Merchant and Jewish philanthropist.

Fraenkel studied Semitic philology from 1873 to 1877 at the universities of Berlin , Leipzig and Strasbourg . After receiving his doctorate in 1877, he studied handwriting in Leiden and achieved his habilitation in 1880 at the University of Breslau , where he was initially a private lecturer, then in 1886 an associate professor, and in 1893 a full professor of Semitic philology.

Fraenkel's most important work is The Aramaic Foreign Words in Arabic (1886). In it he describes the Aramaic loanwords arranged according to subject groups, each with a cultural-historical introduction. Going beyond the actual topic, the book contains numerous previously unrecognized evidence of Iranian fiefdom in Arabic and Greek borrowings in Aramaic. The work was stimulated and intensively accompanied during its creation by his teacher Theodor Nöldeke , to whom he dedicated it.

Fraenkel also wrote contributions to Pauly's Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Studies .

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personal data
SURNAME Fraenkel, Siegmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Semitist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH June 11, 1909
Place of death Wroclaw