The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Flügel, Johann Gottfried

FLÜGEL, Johann Gottfried, German lexicographer: b. Barby on the Elbe, 22 Nov. 1788; d. Leipzig, 24 June 1855. He spent many years in the United States prior to 1820 in business, diplomatic and official occupations, and became professor of English in the University of Leipzig in 1824. He compiled a ‘Complete English-German and German-English Dictionary’ (1830), besides publishing ‘A Series of Commercial Letters’ (9th ed., 1874); ‘Practical Handbook of English Business Correspondence’ (9th ed., 1873); ‘Triglot; or Mercantile Dictionary in Three Tongues — German, English, French’ (2d ed., 1854); and other useful manuals, all revised or brought down to contemporary needs by his son.