Fleischer

Fleischer, HEINRICH LEBERECHT, Orientalist, was born at Schandau, in Saxony, 21st February 1801. Having studied theology and oriental languages at Leipzig, he was for some years after 1828 engaged in cataloguing the oriental MSS. in the royal library at Dresden, the catalogue being published at Leipzig in 1831-34. After acting for five years as teacher in a school at Dresden, Fleischer was appointed professor of Oriental Languages at Leipzig in 1836. He edited Abulfeda's Historia Moslemica (1831-34), the continuation of Habicht's edition of the original of the Thousand and One Nights (vols. ix.-xii. 1842-43), Ali's Hundred Sayings (1837), Baidhavi's Commentary to the Koran (1846-48), and wrote an account of the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish MSS. in the town library of Leipzig, printed in Naumann's Catalogue (1838); also a Critical Dissertation on Habicht's Glosses to the First Four Volumes of the Thousand and One Nights (1836). He died 10th February 1888.