Frederick Ludwig Herzog (1925–1995) was an American systematic theologian at Duke University and minister of the United Church of Christ.
He earned his doctorate from Princeton University in 1953 under the supervision of Paul Lehmann [de] after having studied in Germany and Switzerland, where he was an assistant to the theologian Karl Barth.
[6] He was ordained to the ministry of the United Church of Christ, the successor to the German Reformed denomination of his childhood.
During the final ten years of his life, his writings were strongly affected by his work in Latin America, especially Peru where he assisted with the support of a Methodist-related seminary, the cause of which he was championing at the moment of his death.
[citation needed] Two books have been published referring to his work: The Duke University Libraries has a collection of his papers: