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FLEISCHER, HEINRICH LEBERECHT (1801-1888) , See also:German Orientalist, was See also:born at See also:Schandau, See also:Saxony, on the 21St of See also:February 1801. From 1819 to 1824 he studied See also:theology and See also:oriental See also:languages at See also:Leipzig, ' subsequently continuing his studies in See also:Paris. In 1836 he was appointed' See also:professor of oriental languages at Leipzig University, and retained this See also:post till his See also:death. His most important See also:works were See also:editions of See also:Abulfeda's Historia ante-Islamics (1831-1834), and of Beidhawi's Commentary on the See also:Koran (1846-1848). He compiled a See also:catalogue of the oriental See also:MSS. in the royal library at See also:Dresden (1831); published an edition and German See also:translation of See also:Ali's See also:Hundred Sayings (1837); the continuation of Babicht's edition of The Thousand and One Nights (vols. ix.-xii., 1842-1843) ; and anedition of Mahommed Ibrihim's See also:Persian See also:Grammar (1847). He also wrote an See also:account of the Arabic, See also:Turkish and Persian MSS. at the See also:town library in Leipzig. He died there on the loth of February 1888. Fleischer was one of the eight See also:foreign members of the See also:French See also:Academy of See also:Inscriptions and a See also:knight of the German Ordre pour le Write.

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