Baron Frederic Trenck

(1726-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Trenck, Friedrich, Freiherr von der, 1726-1794 LBT ID: BaTrenc1794 VIAF ID: 49348820 LOC ID: n50024962	B/BAP: 1726-02 DIED: 1794-07-25
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Prussian adventurer whose autobiography was translated by Holcroft into English in 1788 as The Life of Baron Frederic Trenck; containing his Adventures; his cruel and excessive Sufferings, during ten years imprisonment, at the Fortress of Magdeburg.
REFERENCES TO Baron Frederic Trenck: Thomas Holcroft to William Godwin, 24 July 1788 in William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Found 1: ¶ 1 Robert Southey to Grosvenor C. Bedford, 6 March 1806 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Walter Scott to John Murray, 2 November 1808 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XII. 1806 Found 1: ¶ n1 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 115 ¶ 116 C. Kegan Paul, William Godwin: his Friends and Contemporaries (London: Henry S. King & Co., 1876) Ch. II. 1785-1788 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter IV.