Background
Liebrecht was born in Namslau, Prussian Silesia.
germanist historian sociologist
Liebrecht was born in Namslau, Prussian Silesia.
He studied philology at the universities of Breslau, Munich, and Berlin, and in 1849 became professor of the German language at the Athénée Royal at Liège, Belgium.
He resigned his chair and retired into private life in 1867. He died in Saint-Hubert, Belgium.