The New International Encyclopædia/Liebrecht, Felix

LIEBRECHT, lēb'rĕKt, Felix (1812-90). A German linguist and folklorist, born at Namslau. Educated at Breslau, Munich, and Berlin, he became professor of German at the Athénée Royal in Liège in 1849, and retired in 1867. He was the author of many valuable translations with excellent notes — for example, of Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone (1846), with an introduction by Jakob Grimm; of Barlaam und Josaphat, by Damascenus (1847): of Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen (1851); and of the Otia Imperialia of Gervase of Tilbury (1856). Various monographs of his were collected under the title Zur Volkskunde (1879).