FLECKEISEN, ALFRED (182o-1899), German philologist and critic, was born at Wolfenbiittel on Sept. 23, 182o. He was vice-principal of the Vitzthum'sches Gymnasium at Dresden. from 1861 to 1889. He died on Aug. 7, 1899. Fleckeisen is chiefly known for his work on Plautus and Terence ; in the knowledge of these authors he was unrivalled, except perhaps by Ritschl, his life-long friend and a worker in the same field. His chief works are : Exerci tationes Plautinae (1842) ; "Analecta Plautina," printed in Philo logus, ii. (1847) ; Plauti Comoediae, ii. (1850-51, unfinished), introduced by an Epistula critica ad F. Ritschelium; P. Terenti Afri Comoediae (new ed., 1898).