Gustav Leberecht Flügel
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
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.
Family
Flügel was married. His son Josef died in 1910 at Oberlandesgerichtsrat in Dresden.
Works, Translations, Critical Essays and Articles
- The Quran, (Leipzig, 1834 and 1893)
- 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]
- Kitab al-Fihrist by Isḥāq al-Nadīm, ed. Flügel (Leipzig, Vogel, 1871)[4] Published posthumously.[2][3]
- 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]
Publications
- Lexicon bibliographicum et encyclopaedicum (Translation of "Al-Kashf Az-Zunun" by Kâtip Çelebi) (Vol.,1; Leipzig, 1835) (Vol.,2; Leipzig, 1837) (Vol.,3; London, 1842) (Vol.,4; London, 1845) (Vol.,5; London, 1850) (Vol.,6; London, 1852)
- Corani Textus Arabicus (Leipzig, 1834, various reprints down to 1922)
- Concordantiae Corani arabicae (Leipzig, 1842 and 1898)
- Mani, Seine Lehren und Seine Schriften (Mani, his teachings and his writings) (Leipzig, 1862)
- Die Grammatischen Schulen der Araber (The Grammar Schools of Arabic) (London, 1862)
- Ibn Kutlulbugas Krone der Lebensbeschreibungen (Leipzig, 1862)
- Kitab al-Fihrist (published posthumously)
References
- ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Flügel, Gustav Leberecht". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 574.
- ^ ISBN 9781405117524.
- ^ a b Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). . Encyclopedia Americana.
- ^ a b c d e Dodge, Bayard, ed. (1970). The Fihrist of al-Nadim, A Tenth-Century Survey of Muslim Culture (Bibliography). Vol. II. Translated by Dodge. New York & London: Columbia University Press. pp. 877–890.
- ^ Concordantiae Corani arabicae. Leipzig 1842, 1898 (digitalized)
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