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ABRAHAM EMANUEL FROHLICH (1796-1865)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABRAHAM EMANUEL See also:FROHLICH (1796-1865)  , Swiss poet, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:February 1796 at Brugg in the See also:canton of See also:Aargau, where his See also:father was a teacher . After studying See also:theology at See also:Zurich he became a pastor in 1817 and returned as teacher to his native See also:town, where he lived for ten years.' He was then appointed See also:professor of the See also:German See also:language and literature in the cantonal school at Aarau, which See also:post he lost, however, in the See also:political quarrels of 183o . He afterwards obtained the post of teacher and See also:rector of the cantonal See also:college, and was also appointed assistant See also:minister at the See also:parish See also:church . He died at See also:Baden in Aargau on theist of See also:December 1865 . His See also:works are--I 70 Fabein (1825); Schweizerlieder (1827); Das Evangelium St Johannis, in Liedern (1830); Elegien an Wieg' and Sarg (1835); See also:Die Epopoen; See also:Ulrich See also:Zwingli (184o); Ulrich von See also:Hutten (1845); Auserlesene Psalmen and geistliche Lieder See also:fur die Evangelisch-reformirte Kirche See also:des Cantons Aargau (1844); Uber den Kirchengesang der Protestanten (1846); Trostlieder . (1852); Der Junge See also:Deutsch-See also:Michel (1846); Reimspruchze aus Staat, Schule, and Kirche (1820) . An edition of his collected works, in 5 vols., was published at See also:Frauenfeld in 1853 . See also:Frohlich is best known for his two heroic poems, Ulrich Zwingli and Ulrich von Hutten, and especially for his fables, which have been ranked with those of See also:Hagedorn, See also:Lessing and See also:Gellert . See the See also:Life by R . Fasi (Zurich, 1907) .

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