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Carl Felix Alfred Flügel (born December 18, 1820 in Leipzig ; † February 6, 1904 there ) was a German Anglicist and lexicographer .

Life

Carl Felix Alfred Flügel was the son of the Leipzig philologist and lexicographer Johann Gottfried Flügel .

Felix Flügel studied and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . After completing his studies, he worked together with his father on the publication of lexical works from 1845. In 1852 he was first Vice-Consul in Leipzig and after the death of his father in 1855 Consul for the United States and took over the business of the Smithsonian Institution for Germany and various neighboring countries.

He had been an honorary member of the Natural Science Society ISIS since 1855 , a member of the Natural Research Society in Emden since 1856 and was elected member (matriculation no. 1789) of the Leopoldina on January 5, 1857 with the academic surname Eber . In 1866 he became an honorary member of the natural research society in Bamberg.

He was married to the American Pauline, nee Mencke, a great-granddaughter of the Leipzig historian Johann Burckhardt Mencke . Their son Ewald Flügel (1863–1914) followed in the footsteps of their father and grandfather as an English / Americanist and lexicographer. Ewald Flügel completed his habilitation in Leipzig in 1888 with Richard Wülker , before he accepted an appointment at Stanford University in 1892 .

literature

Martin H. Geyer, Johannes Paulmann: The Mechanics of Internationalism. Culture, Society and Politics from the 1840s to the First World War . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2001, pp.?.
Wilhelm Haan : Saxon writer's lexicon . Robert Schaefer's Verlag, Leipzig 1875, p. 76.

Web links

Member entry of Carl Felix Alfred Flügel at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina
CERL Thesaurus : Wing, Felix
Wing, Felix in the German biography
Works by and about Felix Flügel in the German Digital Library
Literature by and about Felix Flügel in the catalog of the German National Library
Calliope network : Flügel, Felix (1820–1904)
Literature by and about Felix Flügel in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

↑ Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden, year 1904, January to June, Dresden 1904, p. 14 ( digitized version )
↑ Annual report of the Natural Research Society in Emden for 1900/1901, Emden 1902, p. 29 ( digitized version )
^ Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 283 ( archive.org ).

personal data
SURNAME	Wing, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wing, Carl Felix Alfred (full name); Wing, Karl Felix Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German English studies and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 18, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH	February 6, 1904
Place of death	Leipzig

[1] Meeting reports and treatises of the Isis Natural Science Society in Dresden, year 1904, January to June, Dresden 1904, p. 14 ( digitized version )

[2] Annual report of the Natural Research Society in Emden for 1900/1901, Emden 1902, p. 29 ( digitized version )

[3] Johann Daniel Ferdinand Neigebaur : History of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists during the second century of its existence . Friedrich Frommann, Jena 1860, directory of the members of the academy, according to the chronological order, p. 283 ( archive.org ).