The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Flügel, Gustav Leberecht

FLÜGEL, Gustav Leberecht, German orientalist: b. Bautzen, 18 Feb. 1802; d. Dresden, 5 July 1870. He was educated at the gymnasium of his native town and studied theology and philology at the University of Leipzig. Later he made special studies in Oriental languages at Vienna and Paris. In 1832 he became professor at the Fürstenschule of Saint Afra at Meissen. He resigned in 1850 and in the following year went to Vienna, where he was engaged to catalogue the Arabic, Turkish and Persian manuscripts of the court library. His principal work is an edition of the bibliographical and encylcopaedic lexicon of Haji Khalfa, with Latin translation (7 vols., London and Leipzig 1835-58). Other works are an edition of the Koran (Leipzig 1834 and 1893); ‘Concordantiae Corani Arabicæ’ (ib. 1842; 1898); ‘Mani, seine Lehren und seine Schriften’ (ib. 1862); ‘Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber’ (ib. 1862); ‘Ibn Kutlūbugas Krone der Lebensbeschreibungen’ (ib. 1862); an edition of ‘Kitab-al-Fihrist,’ published after his death.