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Gustav Flügel

غوستاف فلوغل

Notable figure 1802–1870 · Source: Najib al-Aqiqi, al-Mustashriqun, 3rd ed. (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1964), vol. 2, p. 701; Yahya Murad, Muʿjam asmaʾ al-mustashriqin, p. 798 · Second source: Bibliothèque nationale de France, authority record: Flügel, Gustav (1802-1870)

From Germany; worked in Austria

Field: Text editing

Affiliation

Author of Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (1862)

Biography

He studied oriental languages in Leipzig (1821–1824), then in Vienna and in Paris under Silvestre de Sacy, became professor at the Fürstenschule in Meissen (1830), and later catalogued the Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts of the Vienna library. He edited al-Thaʿalibi's Muʾnis al-wahid with translation (1829), al-Jurjani's al-Taʿrifat (1845) and Hajji Khalifa's Kashf al-zunun in seven volumes, edited the Arabic text of the Qurʾan (Leipzig, 1834) and its concordance Nujum al-furqan (1842), wrote Die grammatischen Schulen der Araber (Leipzig, 1862), and assembled the manuscripts of Ibn al-Nadim's Fihrist, completed after his death by Rödiger and Müller (1871–1872).