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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Felix Liebrecht (1812–1890)

Liebrecht, Felix (lēb’reċht). A German mythologist; born at Namslau, Silesia, March 13, 1812; died at St. Hubert, France, Aug. 3, 1890. Among his writings are: translations, with critical annotations, of Giambattista Basile’s ‘Pentamerone, or the Story of Stories’ (1846); of the ‘Baarlam and Josaphat’ of John of Damascus (1847); and of Dunlop’s ‘History of Prose Fiction.’