Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer (21 February 1801 – 10 February 1888) was a German Orientalist.
Biography
He was born at
Fleischer was one of the eight foreign members of the French Academy of Inscriptions and a knight of the German Ordre Pour le Mérite (1868).[2] He was a member of many German and foreign scientific societies, possessor of honorary degrees from the universities of Königsberg, Prague, Saint Petersburg, Dorpat and Edinburgh,[3] and one of the founders of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft.[1]
In 1870 he received a combined medal (together with Brockhaus, Pott and Rödiger) in occasion of the 25th anniversary of the DMG.[4]
He died at Leipzig.
Writings
His most important works were editions of
Fleischer on the Nature of Arabic Language
"Die Frage ist für uns nicht: was ist das reinste, correcteste und schönste, sondern was ist überhaupt Arabisch?" (in: Kleinere Schriften, Leipzig, 1888, Vol. iii, p. 156).
i.e. "The question for us is not: What is the purest, the most beautiful and correct Arabic, but what is Arabic in general?"
Notes
- ^ a b Prof. Dr. theol. et phil. Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer Professorenkatalog der Universität Leipzig
- ^ Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer | Orden Pour le Mérite
- ^ Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- ^ http://hdl.handle.net/10900/100742 S. Krmnicek und M. Gaidys, Gelehrtenbilder. Altertumswissenschaftler auf Medaillen des 19. Jahrhunderts. Begleitband zur online-Ausstellung im Digitalen Münzkabinett des Instituts für Klassische Archäologie der Universität Tübingen, in: S. Krmnicek (Hrsg.), Von Krösus bis zu König Wilhelm. Neue Serie Bd. 3 (Tübingen 2020), pp. 35–37.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 494. This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
- Rines, George Edwin, ed. (1920). Encyclopedia Americana. .
- Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer de.Wikisource
- Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht In: ISBN 3-428-00186-9, S. 231 f.