Albert Frick (18 September 1714 – 30 May 1776) was a German

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

. He was born at

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

on 18 September 1714 and died on 30 May 1776. He studied at Leipsic, and was appointed assessor (judge) to the faculty of theology. In 1743 he became a minister at

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, but, returning to Ulm in 1744, filled the post of librarian and professor of morals. In 1751 he went to

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as a preacher; and in 1768 was named head

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. Among his writings are ''Historia traditionum ex monumentis Ecclesiae Christianae'' (Ulm, 1740): — ''De Natura et Constitutione Theologie Catecheticae'' (Ulm, 1761–64, 4to). — Hoefer, ''Nouv. Biog. Generale'', 18:871.

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1714 births 1776 deaths People from Ulm German theologians German librarians {{Theologian-stub