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He was fo popular a leflurer in Leipfic, that his audience 
frequently confided of near 300 fludents of tlte u.niverfity. 
Tn i6qi he was elected totlie profeirorniip of tl'.e Oriental 
and Greek languages in the univerfity of Halle, to wh.icit 
wtts added the appointment of pallor to a church in th.e 
fuburbs of that town. Here he projected an eflablilh- 
nient, to be fupported by charitable contributions, in 
vv^hich orphans and poor children in gecieral Oioitld not 
only be inftrutfled,' but entirely fupported; until qualified 
to be fent out into the world. His Itiunane defign was no 
fooner know n than it was p.ttrotiifed ; and in 1698,-with¬ 
out any capital adequate to fo great a vfork, but trufiing 
that Heaven would difpofe tlie itumane and benevolent 
to enable him fo •complete it, h.e began, and in a few 
years finifiied, the celebrated houfe for orphans at 
Haile. This inflitution has been of effential fervice to 
tlie interefts of hutuanity and good morals in Germany, 
and has rendered the projedtor’s memory wortliy of being 
cheriflied as a true benefadtorto his fpecies. Mr. Francke 
lived to fee his pious and benevolent labours fo well fe- 
cotided, that provifion was made during his time for the 
fupport and edtication of two thoufand one hundred and 
ninety-fix children. He was alfo enabled to eftablifli, for 
the benefit of his inflitution, a printing-office, furnifhed 
with types of every fort, and even of inch languages as 
are leaft generally known ; a mufeum of natural curiofities, 
and a numerous library. It may not be improper to men¬ 
tion, that the fchools for orphans at Peterflrurgh, and at 
Potzdam, were founded on the model of this inflitution. 
He died in 1727, in the 65th year of his age, regretted by 
all ranks in Germany, for the noble fervices which he 
had rendered to the interefts of humanity and virtue. Be- 
fides fermons and devotional treatifes, he was the author 
of I. Programmata, 1712. 2. PrceleEliories Hermeneutica, 
1712. 3. Methodus Studii Theologici, 1723. 4. IntroduElio 
ad LcElionem Prophetarum, 1724. 5. Commevtatio de Scopo 
Libroruin Veteris (3 Novi Trjlamenti. 6. Manuduclio ad Lediio- 
nem Scriptura Sacra, 1693. •]. Obfervationes Biblica, 1695. 
Idea Studiofi Theologia, 1712. 8. Monita Pajloralia Tkcologica, 
1717. 
FRANCK'pN (Chriftian), a German Unitarian divine 
of the 16th century, born at Gardleben, in the marche of 
Brandenburg. His parents were of the Lutheran perfua- 
fion, in the principles of which he was at firft educated j 
but he became early a convert to popery, and entered into 
the Jefuits’ fociety in 1568. He was fent to Rome, to go 
through his noviciate ; where, by his clofe application to 
his (Indies, he greatly injured his health, and was obliged 
to be fent to the purer air of Naples, in order to re-efta- 
blifti it. After fpending fome years in Italy, he was re¬ 
called to Germany, where, if we are to credit his biogra¬ 
pher, he adopted the Lutheran and Calvinift creeds. Yet, 
alter a temporary refidence in different towns in Germany 
and Bohemia, he joined himfelf to the Unitarian commu¬ 
nion in Poland, and became a ftrenuous advocate for the 
opinions which had drawn the feverity of proteftant per- 
lecution on the head of Francis David. In 1584 he held 
a difpute at Chmelnitz, with the celebrated Fauftus So- 
cinus, in which he maintained the fame fentiments with 
David refpefling the incarnation of Jefus Chrift. At this 
time Francken was at the head of a feminary at Chmel- 
nilz. Afterwards he removed to Tranfylvania, where he 
taught philofophy in the Unitarian feminary akClaufen- 
burg. In 1591, he accepted fome overtures made him by 
Ladillaus Popelius, one of the emperor’s officers, who 
was attached, like himfelf, to the ftudy of philofophy. 
With this patron and friend he lived till he had produced 
his Analyjis Rixa Chrijliana, qua Imperium turbat (3 diminuit 
liomanu ti. From this time we learn no farther particulars 
concerning him. He was the author of a fevere fatire on 
the Jefuits, entitled, 2. Breve Colloquium JeJuiticum, toti 
Urbi Chrijliano, ad reEie cogrwj'cendam hadlerus non fatis perjpec. 
tarn JeJuitarum Religionem, utiliffimum ; habitum a Sacra Theo¬ 
logia DoBore (3 Profejfore Paulo Florenio cum Chrijliano Franc- 
hen, &c, isqZ, 3. Pracipuarum Enumeratio Caujarurn, cur 
Chrifeiani, cum in multis Religionis DoClrinisJint mobiles C 3 varii, 
in Trinitads tamen Dogmate relinendo fmt conjlantijjimi. 4. De 
Honore Chrijli, id ejl, utrum Chrifnis, cum ipfa perfeBJJima ra- 
tione Dcus non fit, rcligioja tamen adorationecolcndus fit. 5. Re- 
fponfio ad tres Orationis IVarcazoicii Jefuita, quibus regan Ste- 
phanum (BathoriJ (3 Senatores ad Protef antes perfequendos in- 
citat. (1. Typus Vcrltatis Confeientiarum, &c. 
FR ANCK'EN BERG, a town of Germany, in the circle 
of the Upper Rhine, and principality of Upper Hefle : 
fixteen miles north of Marpurg, and twenty-nine fouth- 
wefl of Caflel. 
FR ANCK'ENMARK, or Frankemark, a town of 
Germany, in the archduchy of Auftria : eight miles fouth- 
welt of Voglabrupk. 
FRANCK'LIN (Thomas, D.D.), a writer in polite 
literature, born in London about 1720. His father, a 
printer, was publiflier of the antiminifterial paper called 
the Craftfman, fupported by Bolingbroke, Pulteney, and 
other diftinguiflied perfons. The Icn, through the inte- 
reft of Pulteney, was brought up to letters, and fent to 
Weftminfler fchool. He was thence transferred to Tri¬ 
nity-college, Cambridge, where he diftinguiflied himfelf, 
and ofwliich, after palling tlirough the ufual degrees, he 
became a fellow. He was firft known as an author in 
1749, by a tranflation of The Epiftles of Phalaris, and 
of Cicero on the Nature of the Gods. His reputation for 
learning received a fandtion in 175c by hiseledtion to the 
Greek profelforfliip in the univerfity of Cambridge. In 
1753 he publiflied a poenr called Tranflation, written in 
eafy verfe. He was, in 1758, prefented to the livings of 
Ware and Thundridge in Hertfordfhire. One of his 
greateft w orks, A Tranflation of all the Plays of Sopho¬ 
cles, 2 vols. quarto, appeared in 1759. He prefented to 
the public two tragedies. The Earl of Warwick, and Ma¬ 
tilda, both taken from the French. He lent his name 
to a tranflation of all the works of Voltaire; but it is fup- 
pofed that lie executed little more than the verfion of his 
Eledtra, and Oreftes, both which were adted. He w'as 
the author of feveral Angle fermons, and of a volume of 
Difeourfes on the Relative Duties, publifhed in 1765, 
and well received. He was nominated one of the king’s 
chaplains in 1767, and took the degree of D.D. in 1770. 
He did not, however, difeontinue his literary employ¬ 
ments, and even w rote a farce for the ftage after this pe¬ 
riod. He concluded his literary labours by a tranflation. 
of,The Works of Lucian, 2 vols. 4to. 1780; and died in 
London in 1784. 
FRAN'GO (Nicholas), a man of letters, born at Be- 
nevento in 1310. His father was a fchoolmafter, and it 
was probably under him that he acquired an acquaintance 
with the learned languages. He had the misfortune in 
his youth to contradt an intimacy with the noted Peter 
Aretino, from whom he caught the fpirit of perfonal 
fatire, with a total difre'gard of moderation or decency. 
After he had made himfelf many enemies in his own 
country, he removed to Venice, where Aretino then was. 
Their union, which from the fuperior learning of Franco 
was advantageous to the other, did not long continue. 
The fuccefs of Aretino’s Letters, publifhed in 1573, ex¬ 
cited the envy of Franco, who publilhed his PJlole Vul- 
gari in 1539, by way of rivalry ; and immediately a fierce 
war broke out between them, fuftained on each fide with 
the greateft rancour and malignity. Franco left Venice 
with an intention of going to France ; but on pafling 
through Cafal, he was received with fo much courtefy by 
Fanzino, governor of Montferrat, that he took up his 
abode there for fome time. There he publifhed a dia¬ 
logue, entitled Delle Belleze\ and alfo a colledlion of fon- 
nets againft Aretino, in conjundtion with a Priapeia Ua~ 
liana, likewife in fonnets. He was a principal member of 
the academy of Argonaut! at Montferrat, and in that Ca¬ 
pacity wrote his Rime Maritime, printed at Mantua in 1549. 
In this latter city he followed the profeftion of a fchool¬ 
mafter. Thence he returned to Rome, where he pub¬ 
lifhed his Latin commentaries on the Priapeia, attributed 
to 
