CARL

FRIEDRICH WILHELM

See also:

• ALFRED

ALFRED

See also:

• CARL FRIEDRICH WILHELM ALFRED FLECKEISEN (1820-1899)

FLECKEISEN (1820-1899)  , German, philologist and critic, was born at Wolfen-. buttel on the 23rd of September 182o . He was educated at the Helmstedt gymnasium and the university of Gottingen . After holding several educational posts, he was appointed in 1861 to the vice-principalship of the Vitzthum'sches Gymnasium at Dresden, which he held till his retirement in 1889 . He died on the 7th of August 1899 . Fleckeisen is chiefly known for his labours on Plautus and Terence; in the knowledge of these authors he was unrivalled, except perhaps by Ritschl, his life-long friend and a worker in the same field, His chief works are: Exercitationes Plautinae (1842), one of the most masterly productions on the language of Plautus; " Analecta Plautina," printed in Philologus, ii . (1847); PlautiComoediae, i., ii . (1850-1851, unfinished), introduced by an Epistula critica ad F . Ritschelium; P . Terenti Afri Comoediae (new ed., 1898) . In his editions he endeavoured to restore the text in accordance with the results of his researches on the usages of the Latin language and metre . He attached great importance to the question of orthography, and his short treatise Filnfzig Artikel (1861) is considered most valuable . Fleckeisen also contributed largely to the Jahrbucher fur Philologie, of which he was for many years editor .

See obituary

notice by G . Gotz in C . Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Altertumskunde (xxiii., 1901), and article by H . Usener in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (where the date of birth is given as the loth of September) .