Georg Wilhelm Friedridi Freytag, a German orientalist, born in Liineburg, Sept. 19, 1788, died in Bonn, Nov. 16, 1861. He studied theology and philosophy at Gottingen, and in 1811 became tutor there, which office he renounced in 1813, through hatred of French domination, and was chaplain in the army of the conquerors which entered Paris in 1815. He resigned his office to study Arabic, Persian, and Turkish under Sylvestre de Sacy, and held the professorship of those languages in the university of Bonn from 1819 until his death. Besides Arabic text books, he published a translation of Caabi ben Sohair Carmen in Laudem Muhammedis dictum (Bonn, 1822), Arabum Proverbia (3 vols., 1838-'44), an edition of the Fakihat al-Kholafa by Ibn Arabshah (vol. i., Arabic text, Bonn, 1832; vol. ii., translation, 1858), and the great Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (4 vols., Halle, 1830-'37), which was followed by an abridgment in 1837.