Gustav Leberecht Flügel

Gustav Leberecht wings ( born February 18, 1802 in Budissin (now Bautzen ); † July 5, 1870 in Dresden ) was a German orientalist.

After attending grammar school in his native town, he studied theology and philosophy in Leipzig. He soon discovered his passion for oriental languages ​​, which he studied in Vienna and Paris. In 1832 he became professor at the Prince's School St. Afra in Meissen. However, these activities he had to stop in 1850 for health reasons. From 1851 he was employed at the Prince Library in Vienna with the cataloging of Arabic, Turkish and Persian manuscripts.

Wing main work was to develop a bibliographic and encyclopaedic lexicon of Haji Khalfa, with Latin translation (London and Leipzig, 1835-1858 ). Of particular importance also had his copy of the Koran, the (1834 and again in 1893) was in Leipzig at the printer and publisher Carl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz. This European science was first made a reliable Koranic text is available. On the wing edition based in the subsequent period, almost all translations into European languages ​​.

Works (selection)

  • Corani textus arabicus. Tauchnitz, Leipzig 1834 ( digitized in the Google Book Search )
  • Concordantiae Corani arabicae. Leipzig in 1842 and again in 1898 ( digitized )
  • Mani, his teachings and his writings. Leipzig 1862
  • The grammatical schools of the Arabs. Leipzig 1862
  • Ibn Kutlulbugas crown of biographies. Leipzig 1862
  • Kitab -al- Fihrist, published posthumously
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