Francke, Georg Samuel

Francke, Georg Samuel a Lutheran theologian of Germany, born September 7, 1763, was in 1806 preacher at Sonderburg, in 1810 doctor and professor of theology at Kiel, and died March 28, 1840. He published, Entwurf einer Apologetik der Christl. Religion (Altona, 1817): — De Historia Dogmatum Adminiorum (Kiel, 1814): — Commentat. Quaedam Theologicae de Librorum Vet. Test. (1788): — Ueber die neuren Schicksale des Spinozismus (1808): — Theologische Encyklopadie (Altona, 1819). See Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:3, 386, 765; Furst, Bibl. Jud. 1:290. (B.P.)