thumb|Dr. Johann Gottfried Flügel
Johann Gottfried Flügel (22 November 1788 – 24 June 1855) was a German lexicographer.
Biography
He was born at Barby, near Magdeburg. He started his career as a merchant's clerk. In 1810, he emigrated to the United States, He made a special study of the English language, and returning to Germany in 1819, was in 1824 appointed lector of the English language in the University of Leipzig. In 1838 he became American consul, and subsequently representative and correspondent of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D.C., and several other leading American literary and scientific institutions. In 1853, he was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society. He died at Leipzig on 24 June 1855.
Works
The fame of Flügel rests chiefly on the Vollständige englisch-deutsche und deutsch-englische Wörterbuch, first published in two volumes (Leipzig) in 1830, which has had an extensive circulation not only in Germany but in England and America. In this work he was assisted by J. Sporschil, and a new and enlarged edition, edited by his son Felix Flügel (1820–1904), was published at Brunswick (1890–1892). Another edition, in two volumes, edited by Prof. Immanuel Schmidt and S. Tanger, appeared (Brunswick, London & New York) in 1906.