Franck Adam,  a native of Silesia, was born in the year 1590, and was inferior to none of his contemporaries in learning and probity. He succeeded Joachim Stegmann, as Rector of the College at Racow, in 1630; and as it was not customary for the person holding that situation, which was deemed one of great honour, to retain it longer than from one to three years, he was succeeded in it either by Peter Teichmann, or George Nigrinus, A.D. 1633. It is not improbable, that the former held the office temporarily, till the services of the latter could be procured; or that the one acted as Rector, having the other as a colleague, under the title of Co-rector. When Adam Franck left Racow, and went into Transylvania, where he was appointed to the office of Pastor of the Saxon Church of Clausenburg, he was urged to finish a "Refutation of the Refutation of Joachim Stegmann's Catechism," and transmit it, as soon as possible, to Racow, in order that it might be revised for publication. This work had been begun by Stegmann himself, whose death, in the year 1633, prevented its completion. Whether it was ever finished by Adam Franck is uncertain; but when some inquiry was made about it in 1655, Stegmann's manuscript was nowhere to be found.

Adam Franck died, according to Sandius, in 1656 (1650?), aged sixty. He is not known to have published anything; but left behind him Sermons, and Explanations of various Passages of Scripture, together with numerous other manuscripts. He corresponded with John Stoinius, who sent him a letter from Holland, dated July 24th, 1638, and containing an account of the flourishing state of the Socinian cause in that country, which George Ragotzi, Prince of Transylvania, intercepted, and forwarded to the Ministers of the Dutch Churches.

(Vidend. Sandii B. A. p. 141. Bock, Hist. Ant. T. I. pp. 359, 360. 951, 952. Anon. Epist . de Vit. And. Wiatowatii, pp. 229, 230.)

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