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JOHANN GOTTFRIED See also:FLUGEL (1788-1855) , See also:German lexicographer, was See also:born at See also:Barby near See also:Magdeburg, on the 22nd of See also:November 1788 . He was originally a See also:merchant's clerk, but emigrating to the See also:United States in 1810, he made a See also:special study of the See also:English See also:language, and returning to See also:Germany in 1819, was in 1824 appointed See also:lector of the English language in the university of See also:Leipzig . In 1838 he became See also:American See also:consul, and subsequently representative and correspondent of the Smithsonian Institution at See also:Washington and several other leading American See also:literary and scientific institutions . He died at Leipzig on the 24th of See also:June 1855 . The fame of See also:Flugel rests chiefly on the Vollstdndige englischdeutsche and See also:deutsch-englische Worterbuch, first published in 2 vols . (Leipzig) in 1830, which has had an extensive circulation not only in Germany but in See also:England and See also:America . In this See also:work he was assisted by J . Sporschil, and a new and enlarged edition, edited by his son See also:Felix Flugel (1820–1904), was published at See also:Brunswick (189o-1892) . Another edition, in two volumes, edited by Prof . Immanuel See also:Schmidt and S . Tanger appeared (Brunswick, See also:London & New See also:York) in 1906 . Among his other See also:works are—Vollstandige engl . Sprachlehre (1824–1826); Triglotte, See also:oder kaufmannisches Worterbuch in drei Sprachen, Deutsch, Englisch and Franzosisch (1836–1840) ; Kleines Kaufmannisches Handworterbuch in drei Sprachen (1840); and Praktisches Handbuch der engl . Handelscorrespondenz (1827, 9th ed . 1873) . All these have passed through several See also:editions . In addition, Flugel also published in the English language: A See also:series of Commercial Letters (Leipzig, 1822), a 9th edition of which appeared in 1874 under the See also:title See also:Practical See also:Mercantile See also:Correspondence and a Practical See also:Dictionary of the English and German See also:Languages (2 vols., See also:Hamburg and Leipzig, 1847–1852; 15th ed., Leipzig, 1891) . The last was continued and re-edited by his son Felix . |
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