Flügel, JOHANN GOTTFRIED

Flügel, JOHANN GOTTFRIED, German lexicographer, born at Barby in 1788, travelled as a merchant to North America, and in 1824 was appointed lector of the English language at Leipzig, where in 1838 he became United States consul, and in 1848 agent in Germany for the Smithsonian Institution. He died June 24, 1855. He prepared a standard dictionary of English and German (1830; 4th remodelled edition, by his son Felix, 1891). He also published a series of commercial letters in German and English (9th eds. 1873 and 1874), and other kindred works.