HEINRICH LEBERECHT

FLEISCHER (1801-1888)  , German Orientalist, was born at Schandau, Saxony, on the 21St of February 1801 . From 1819 to 1824 he studied theology and oriental languages at Leipzig, ' subsequently continuing his studies in Paris . In 1836 he was appointed' professor of oriental languages at Leipzig University, and retained this post till his death . His most important works were editions of Abulfeda's Historia ante-Islamics (1831-1834), and of Beidhawi's Commentary on the Koran (1846-1848) . He compiled a catalogue of the oriental MSS. in the royal library at Dresden (1831); published an edition and German translation of Ali's Hundred Sayings (1837); the continuation of Babicht's edition of The Thousand and One Nights (vols. ix.-xii., 1842-1843) ; and anedition of Mahommed Ibrihim's Persian Grammar (1847) . He also wrote an account of the Arabic, Turkish and Persian MSS. at the town library in Leipzig . He died there on the loth of February 1888 . Fleischer was one of the eight foreign members of the French Academy of Inscriptions and a knight of the German Ordre pour le Write .