Adolphe Franck, a French philosopher of Jewish parentage, born at Liocourt, department of Meurthe, Oct. 9,1809. He studied at Nancy and Toulouse, taught in various institutions, and since 1854 has been professor of international law at the college de France. His La Kabhale, ou Philosophie religieuse des Hebreux (1843), was translated into German by Jellinek (1844), and he has written on penal and ecclesiastical law and various other subjects. He edited the Dictionnaire des sciences philo-sophiques (6 vols., 1844-'52), and has contributed to the Journal des Debats and to the annals of the academy of moral and political sciences, of which he is a member. Since 1805 he has been a member of the superior council of public instruction. In 1873 he resigned the office of vice president of the Hebrew consistory.