Gustav Lebrecht Flugel, a German orientalist, born in Bautzen, Feb. 18, 1802. He studied philology, and especially the oriental languages, at Leipsic, Vienna, and Paris, and in 1832 obtained a professorship at Meissen, which he held till 1850, when he resigned it on account of his feeble health. His most important work is an edition of Hadji Khalfa's bibliographic and encyclopaedic lexicon in Arabic, with a Latin translation and commentary, published at Leipsic and London, at the expense of the oriental translation fund (7 vols., 1835-'58). In 1834 he published an edition of the Koran, and in 1842 Concordantioe Corani Arabicae. His recent works are Mani und seine Lehre (1862), and Die arabischen, turki-schenundpersischen Handschriften (1865-7).