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FLECKEISEN, CARL See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM See also:ALFRED (1820-1899) , See also:German, philologist and critic, was See also:born at Wolfen-. buttel on the 23rd of See also:September 182o. He was educated at the See also:Helmstedt gymnasium and the university of See also:Gottingen. After holding several educational posts, he was appointed in 1861 to the See also:vice-principalship of the Vitzthum'sches Gymnasium at See also:Dresden, which he held till his retirement in 1889. He died on the 7th of See also:August 1899. Fleckeisen is chiefly known for his labours on See also:Plautus and See also:Terence; in the knowledge of these authors he was unrivalled, except perhaps by See also:Ritschl, his See also:life-See also:long friend and a worker in the same See also:field, His See also:chief See also:works are: Exercitationes Plautinae (1842), one of the most masterly productions on the See also:language of Plautus; " Analecta Plautina," printed in Philologus, ii. (1847); PlautiComoediae, i., ii. (1850-1851, unfinished), introduced by an Epistula critica ad F. Ritschelium; P. Terenti Afri Comoediae (new ed., 1898). In his See also:editions he endeavoured to restore the See also:text in accordance with the results of his researches on the usages of the Latin language and See also:metre. He attached See also:great importance to the question of See also:orthography, and his See also:short See also:treatise Filnfzig Artikel (1861) is considered most valuable. Fleckeisen also contributed largely to the Jahrbucher See also:fur Philologie, of which he was for many years editor.

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notice by G. Gotz in C. See also:Bursian's Biographisches Jahrbuch fur Altertumskunde (See also:xxiii., 1901), and See also:article by H. Usener in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (where the date of See also:birth is given as the loth of September).

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