Felix Liebrecht
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Felix Liebrecht (born at Namslau, Silesia, March 13, 1812; died at St. Hubert August 3, 1890) was a German folklorist.
He studied philology at the universities of Breslau, Munich, and Berlin, and in 1849 became professor of the German language at the Athénée Royal at Liége, Belgium. He resigned his chair and retired into private life in 1867.
The following translations by him may be mentioned:
- Giambattista Basile, "Pentamerone," with introduction by Jakob Grimm (Berlin, 1846)
- Johannes Damascenus, "Baarlam und Josaphat" (Münster, 1847)
- John Dunlop, "Geschichte der Prosadichtungen" (Berlin, 1851)
- an edition of Gervasius of Tilbury's "Otia Imperialia" (Hanover, 1856)
- George Cornewall Lewis, "Untersuchungen über die Glaubwürdigkeit der altrömischen Geschichte" (Hanover, 1863).
A collection of original essays by him was published at Heilbronn in 1879, under the title "Zur Volkskunde."
[edit] References
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
This article incorporates text from the 1901–1906 Jewish Encyclopedia, a publication now in the public domain.
