Carl Frederik Bricka

Carl Frederik Bricka (10 July 1845 – 23 August 1903) was a Danish archivist, historian and biographer.

His father, Frederik Vilhelm Theodor Bricka (1809–79), was a medical doctor.

During the period 1883–97, he was employed in the Danish National Archives, after which he became the department head (Rigsarkivar).

From 1885 until his death in 1903, he was the publisher of the Dansk biografisk lexikon: tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537–1814.

The first edition of this Danish biographic encyclopedia was published by Gyldendal in 19 volumes between 1887 and 1905.