Felix Liebrecht

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Felix Liebrecht (13 March 1812 – 3 August 1890) was a German folklorist.

Biography

Liebrecht was born in Namslau, Prussian Silesia. 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 Liège, Belgium. He resigned his chair and retired into private life in 1867. He died in Saint-Hubert, Belgium.

Works

Translations by Liebrecht include:

Giambattista Basile's Pentamerone, with introduction by Jakob Grimm (1846)
Johannes Damascenus's "Baarlam und Josaphat" (1847)
John Colin Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen (1851)
an edition of Gervasius of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia (1856)
George Cornewall Lewis's Untersuchungen über die Glaubwürdigkeit der altrömischen Geschichte (1863).

A collection of original essays by him was published at Heilbronn in 1879, under the title Zur Volkskunde.

References

Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
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External links

Edward Schröder (1906), "Liebrecht, Felix", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German) 51, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 708–709
"Liebrecht, Felix". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.

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Persondata
Name	Liebrecht, Felix
Alternative names
Short description	German folklorist
Date of birth	13 March 1812
Place of birth	Namslau, Prussian Silesia
Date of death	3 August 1890
Place of death	Saint-Hubert, Belgium

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