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Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer
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Heinrich Leberecht Fleischer

هاينريش ليبرشت فلايشر

Notable figure 1801–1888 · Source: ʿAbd al-ʿAziz al-Humaid, Aʿmal al-mustashriqin al-ʿarabiyya fi al-muʿjam al-ʿarabi: dirasa wa-taqwim (PhD thesis, Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University, 1433 AH), vol. 1, pp. 29, 43 · Second source: Deutsche Biographie (ADB 48, 1904, pp. 584–594; NDB 5, 1961, pp. 231–232): Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht, 1801–1888, born Schandau

Field: Lexicography and text editing

Affiliation

Philologist; author of corrections to Dozy's Supplément

Biography

Born in Schandau on the Elbe, he studied under de Sacy in Paris and became professor of Arabic at Leipzig. He edited al-Zamakhshari's Atwaq al-dhahab with a German translation (Leipzig 1835) and al-Baydawi's commentary on the Qurʾan (Leipzig 1846–1848), and wrote studies, corrections and additions to Dozy's Supplément, collected in his Kleinere Schriften (1885–1888).