Gustav Leberecht Flügel (February 18, 1802 – July 5, 1870) was a German
orientalist.
Life
After attending high school in his native city Flügel 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 a professor at the Fürstenschule (Ducal or Princely school) of
St. Afra in
Meissen. However, he resigned in 1850 on health grounds. From 1851 he worked at the Fürstenbibliothek in Vienna on the cataloguing of
Arabic,
Turkish and
Persian manuscripts.[1] In December 1857 he became a corresponding member of the
Russian Academy of Sciences in
Saint Petersburg and, in 1859, a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences. In 1864 he was admitted as a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
Flügel 's main work was the creation of a bibliographic and encyclopaedic lexicon of
Haji Khalfa, with Latin translation (London and Leipzig, 1835-1858). Particular importance was attached to
his edition of the Qur’ān, printed in Leipzig (1834 and 1893) by the printer and publisher Carl Christoph Traugott Tauchnitz. This made a reliable Quranic text available for the first time to European science. In the following years, almost all translations into European languages were based on Flügel's edition.
Bibliographical and Encyclopaedic Lexicon - (Arabic title Kaşf az-Zunūn by
Hadi Khalfa; Arabic with parallel
Latin translation in 7 vols., London and Leipzig, 1835–1858). Flügel's magnum opus.
Dissertatio de Arabicis Scriptorum Graecorum Interpretibus, in Memoriam Anniversariam Scholae Regiae Afranae. (Meisen, Klinkicht, 1841)[4]
Concordantiae Corani Arabicae (Leipzig, Bredtil, 1842, 1875 and 1898)[5][4]
Zur Frage über die Romane und Erzahlungen der Mohammedanischen Völkerschaften, Zeitschrift Der Deutschen Morganländischen Gesellschaft, XXII (1868), 731–38.[4]
Babek, seine Abstammung und Erstes Auftreten, ibid., XXI (1869), 1-42.[4]
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