FROHLICH, ABRAHAM EMANUEL, a Swiss poet, pastor and professor, was born at Brugg (Feb. 1, 1796) and died at Baden (Dec. 1, 1865), both in the canton of Aargau. His earliest literary work was in the form of versified apologues (Fabeln; 1825), which achieved great popularity for their satiri cal humour and sound morality. Among his other works were Hymns, the ultra-Protestant epics of Ulrich Zwingli (1840) and Ulrich von Hutten (1845), and Der Junge Deutsch-Michel (1846), an attack on the youth of his day. Frohlich was highly conservative and orthodox in his views.
His collected works were issued in 1853, in 5 volumes, with a 6th added in 1861. See Life by R. Faesi (1907).