Liebrecht, FELIX, a learned linguist and folklorist, was born at Namslau, in Silesia, 13th March 1812; studied at Breslau, Munich, and Berlin; and became in 1849 professor of the German Language at the Athénée Royal in Liège, from which he retired in 1867. Liebrecht early made his name known by a series of admirable articles in various learned journals on the origin and diffusion of popular stories, and by translations enriched with ample annotations no less valuable than the original works themselves. Among these are Basile's Pentamerone, oder das Märchen aller
Märchen, with a preface by Jakob Grimm (2 vols. 1846); the Barlaam und Josaphat of Joannes Damascenus (1847); Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen, with large additions (1851); and an edition of the non-historical mythological portions of Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia (1856). Professor Liebrecht collected his scattered papers in Zur Volkskunde (1879), a work which has a place on the shelves of all scientific students of comparative folklore. He died at St Hubart, in Belgium, in August 1890.