Gustav Leberecht Flügel was a German

Germany

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 orientalist

Oriental studies

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Born at Bautzen

Bautzen

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, he received his early education at the gymnasium of his native town, and studied theology and philology at Leipzig

University of Leipzig

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. Gradually he devoted his attention chiefly to Oriental languages, which he studied in Vienna

Vienna

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 and Paris

Paris

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. In 1832 he became professor at the Fürstenschule of St Afra in Meissen

Meissen

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, but ill-health compelled him to resign that office in 1850, and in 1851 he went to Vienna, where he was employed in cataloguing the Arabic

Arabic language

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, Turkish and Persian manuscripts of the court library. He died at Dresden

Dresden

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Flügel's chief work is an edition of the bibliographical and encyclopaedic lexicon of Haji Khalfa, with Latin

Latin

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 translation (7 vols, London and Leipzig, 1835-1858). He also brought out an edition of the Qur'an

Qur'an

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(Leipzig, 1834 and again 1893); then followed Concordantiae Corani arabicae (Leipzig, 1842 and again 1898); Mani, seine Lehren und seine Schriften (Leipzig, 1862); Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862); and Ibn Kutlulbugas Krone der Lebensbeschreibungen (Leipzig, 1862). An edition of Kitab-al-Fihrist, prepared by him, was published after his death.