August (Johann Heinrich) LESKIEN Slavonic scholar, classical philologist; (b. Kiel, 8 July 1840 – d. Leipzig, 20 September 1916)

University professor (Göttingen, Leipzig)

Membership of Serbian Learned Society (SLS): corresponding member from 30 January 1884

Membership of Serbian Royal Academy (SRA): Academy of Philosophical Sciences, corresponding member from 23 January 1888

Biography and bibliography: HE 2 (A. Belić). – SKA God 2 (1889) 312–314 i 9 (1896) 267. – ZS 9 (1932) 1–10 (G. Streitberg). – ZS 26 (1981) 271–278 (G. Schröter). – NBS 342–343 (W. Zeil). – KME 2, 528-531 (R. Zlatanova).

Obituary: Berichte über die Vernandlungen der köninglich sächsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Leipzig 48 (1916) 16–30 (K. Brugmann). – JBAW (1917) 15–20 (W. Streitberg). – AKAW 67 (1917) 481–499 (V. Jagić). – Časopis pro Moderni Filologii a Litertury 6 (1918) 82–89 (M. Weingart). – LBAN 4 (1919) 110–114 (Б. Цоневъ). – ASPh 37 (1920) 270–280 (V. Jagić).

Photograph: SANU–F 356