Gustav Leopold Plitt

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Gustav Leopold Plitt (born March 27, 1836 in Genin ; † September 10, 1880 in Erlangen ) was a German Lutheran theologian and professor of church history .

Life

Gustav Leopold Plitt was the son of the pastor at St. George's Church in Genin Carl Gustav Plitt (1808–1878). Senator Heinrich Gustav Plitt (1777–1841) was his grandfather and Senator Heinrich Gustav Plitt was his uncle. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school at Easter 1854 and then began studying Protestant theology at the University of Erlangen . During his studies in 1854 he became a member of the Christian student union Uttenruthia . In 1856/57 he studied in Berlin and then went back to Erlangen. In 1858 he passed the candidate examination for the ecclesiastical office in his hometown of Lübeck, in 1861 he received a licentiate in theology, and in 1862 he completed his habilitation in Erlangen with an investigation into the authority of the Schmalkaldic articles De auctoritate articulorum Smalcaldicorum symbolica .

The focus of his research was on the Reformation . In 1867, Plitt was promoted to associate professor. In 1872 he was awarded an honorary theological doctorate by the University of Dorpat . In 1875, Plitt received the chair for church history and theological encyclopedia at the University of Erlangen . In 1877 he was appointed to the editorial board of the second edition of the Real Encyclopedia for Protestant Theology and Church .

He was a member of the Bavarian Progressive Party, President of the Bavarian Association for Jewish Mission and campaigned for the Inner Mission . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he organized the field diakonia , for which he was awarded the Prussian Order of the Crown.

Since 1866 he had been married to Cäcilie Julie Pauline Schelling, a granddaughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling .

Awards

Works (selection)

  • The Loci Communes of Philipp Melanthone [!] Published and explained in their original form. Deichert, Erlangen 1864. Online .
    • The Loci Communes Philipp Melanchthons in their original form after GL Plitt in the second edition and reissued and explained by D. Th. Kolde . Deichert (Böhme), Erlangen and Leipzig 1890. Online in the Google book search USA .
  • Introduction to the Augustana . 2 vol. Deichert, Erlangen 1867–1868. Online: Volume 1 Volume 2 .
  • Luther before Kaiser and Reich: a lecture given in December 1868. Deichert, Erlangen 1869. Online in the Google Book Search USA .
  • From Schelling's life. In letters . 3 vols. Hirzel, Leipzig 1869–1870. Online: Volume 1 Volume 2 . Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim [u. a.] 2003.
  • Brief history of the Lutheran mission in lectures. Deichert, Erlangen 1871. Online in the Google Book Search USA .
  • One word for the Prussian church laws. Deichert, Erlangen 1873.
  • The apology of the Augustana explained historically. Deichert, Erlangen 1873. Online in Google Book Search USA .
  • Jodokus Trutfetter von Eisenach describes Luther's teacher in his work. Deichert, Erlangen 1876. Online in Google Book Search USA .
  • The Albrecht people or the evangelical community. A word of instruction and warning. Deichert, Erlangen 1877.
  • D. Martin Luther's life and work. On November 10, 1883, described to the German Protestant people by D. Gustav Plitt, completed by Eginhard Friedrich Petersen , chief pastor in Lübeck. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1883. Online in the Google Book Search USA .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907) Digitized version , no. 518
  2. ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 160, no.380.
personal data
SURNAME Plitt, Gustav Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian and professor of church history
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Genin
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1880
Place of death gain