Online Encyclopedia

Search over 40,000 articles from the original, classic Encyclopedia Britannica, 11th Edition.

GUSTAV LEBERECHT FLUGEL (1802-1870)

Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Spread the word: del.icio.us del.icio.us it!

GUSTAV LEBERECHT See also:

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

End of Article: GUSTAV LEBERECHT FLUGEL (1802-1870)
[back]
FLUDD, or FLUD, ROBERT [ROBERTUS DE FLUCTIBUS] (157...
[next]
JOHANN GOTTFRIED FLUGEL (1788-1855)

Additional information and Comments

There are no comments yet for this article.
» Add information or comments to this article.
Please link directly to this article:
Highlight the code below, right click and select "copy." Paste it into a website, email, or other HTML document.