{{Short description|German author}} {{Infobox writer |image=Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk.jpg |caption=Dulk in 1855 }} '''Albert Friedrich Benno Dulk''' (1819–1884) was a German author.<ref name=nie>{{Cite NIE|wstitle=Dulk, Albert Frederick Benno|short=x|vb=x}}</ref>
==Biography== Dulk was born in Königsberg to Friedrich Philipp Dulk (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 Asia, he settled in Geneva in 1850, and subsequently in Stuttgart, where he wrote the dramas ''Jesus der Christ'' (1865) and ''Simson'' (1859), which depict the conflict between Judaism and paganism. One of his later dramas, ''König Enzio'', was set to music by Johann Joseph Abert.<ref name=nie />
As an adherent of socialism he became conspicuous, in 1871, through his opposition to the Franco-Prussian War, and his publications ''Patriotismus'' (Patriotism) and ''Frömmigkeit'' (Piety) obtained a wide circulation. In 1882 he founded the first society of freethinkers in Germany in Stuttgart, and during the last years of his life he principally wrote about the discussion of the radical side of religio-philosophical subjects.<ref name=nie />
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