Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred Fleckeisen

Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Alfred Fleckeisen (September 23, 1820, in Wolfenbüttel – August 7, 1899, in Dresden) was a German philologist and critic.

Fleckeisen is chiefly known for his labors on Plautus and Terence; in the knowledge of these authors he was unrivalled, except perhaps by Ritschl, his lifelong friend and a worker in the same field.

In his editions he endeavoured to restore the text in accordance with the results of his researches on the usages of the Latin language and meter.

He attached great importance to the question of orthography, and his short treatise Fünfzig Artikel (1861) is considered most valuable.

Fleckeisen also contributed largely to the Jahrbücher für Philologie und Pädagogik, the philology department of which he was for many years editor.