Fleischer, Heinrich Leberecht, Orientalist, born at Schandau, Saxony; after a university training at Leipzig he undertook a catalogue of the Oriental MSS. in the royal library at Dresden, and in 1836 became professor of Oriental Languages at Leipzig; did important work as a critical editor of Oriental works and MSS. (1801‒1888).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Flegel * Fleming, Paul