Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk (1819–1884) was a German author.

Biography

Dulk was born in Königsberg to

Friedrich Philipp Dulk Friedrich Philipp Dulk (22 November 1788 in Stallupönen – 14 December 1851 in Königsberg) was a German pharmacist and chemist. He was the father of writer Albert Dulk (1819–1884) and father-in-law to mathematician Otto Hesse. He studi ...

(1788–1851). He studied medicine and the natural sciences in Königsberg and in Leipzig and Breslau. He took an active part in the popular uprisings of 1848, at which time his revolutionary drama ''Lea'' appeared. After traveling in the Orient, he settled in Geneva in 1850, and subsequently in

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, where he wrote the dramas ''Jesus der Christ'' (1865) and ''Simson'' (1859), in which play the conflict between Judaism and

paganism Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christianity, early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions ot ...

is depicted. One of his later dramas, ''König Enzio'', was set to music by Johann Joseph Abert. As an adherent of socialism he became conspicuous, in 1871, through his opposition to the Franco-Prussian War, and his publications ''Patriotismus'' and ''Frömmigkeit'' obtained a wide circulation. In 1882 he founded in Stuttgart the first society of freethinkers in Germany, and during the last years of his life devoted his pen principally to the discussion of the radical side of religio-philosophical subjects.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dulk, Albert 1819 births 1884 deaths Writers from Königsberg 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German male writers People of the Revolutions of 1848 Forty-Eighters