Friedrich August Wilhelm Wenck (4 September 1741, in Idstein–15 June 1810, in Leipzig) was a German historian.

Beginning in 1760, he studied history at the University of Erlangen, then in 1766–68, he worked as an assistant at the Darmstadt Pädagogium.

In 1780, he succeeded Johann Gottlob Böhme (1717–1780) as professor of history at Leipzig.

[2] He is best remembered for his three-volume Codex juris gentium recentissimi (1781–95), an edition of international treatises from 1735 to 1772.

[3] In 1779, he published a German translation (with notes) of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Geschichte Des Verfalls Und Untergangs Des Römischen Reichs).