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GUSTAV LEBERECHT FLUGEL (1802-1870)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUSTAV LEBERECHT

FLUGEL (1802-1870)  , German orientalist, was born at Bautzen on the 18th of
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February 1802 . He received his early
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education at the gymnasium of his native
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town, and studied
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theology and
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philology at
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Leipzig . Gradually he devoted his attention chiefly to
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Oriental
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languages, which he studied in Vienna and Paris . •In 1832 he became professor at the Fiirstenschule of St Afra in
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Meissen, but
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ill-
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health compelled him to resign that office in 1850, and in 1851 he went to Vienna, where he was employed in cataloguing the Arabic,
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Turkish and Persian
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manuscripts of the court library . He died at
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Dresden on the 5th of
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July 1870 . Flugel's chief
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work is an edition of the bibliographical and encyclopaedic
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lexicon of Haji Khalfa, with Latin
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translation (7 vols.,
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London and Leipzig, 1835–1858) . He also brought out an edition of the
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Koran (Leipzig, 1834 and again 1893) ; then followed Concordantiae Corani arabicae (Leipzig, 1842 and again 1898) ; Mani, seine Lehren and seine Schriften (Leipzig, 1862) ; Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862) ; and
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Ibn Kutltlbugas Krone der Lebensbeschreibungen (Leipzig, 1862) . An edition of Kitdb-al-Fihrist, prepared by him, was published after his
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death .

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