Johann Jakob Plitt

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Johann Jakob Plitt (born February 27, 1727 in Wetter , † April 7, 1773 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor.

Life

Plitt was the son of the businessman Johann Conrad Plitt and his wife Anne Marie May. Barely three years old, his parents sent him to the school in his place of birth. At the age of fourteen he attended grammar school in Lippstadt and in the following year he moved to Archigymnasium in Soest . In 1744 he began studying theology, first in Marburg , and from 1745 in Halle . Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten and Christian Wolff became his most influential teachers . But the lectures by Johann Georg Knapp on church history and Hebrew, by Johann Heinrich Callenberg on the Arabic language and oriental literature, by Georg Friedrich Meier on various philosophical topics, helped him further in his education. In addition, he attended the lectures on canon law with Daniel Nettelbladt , the lectures on physics with Johann Gottlob Krüger and the lectures on mathematics with Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein at the law faculty .

He strove for an academic career and passed his master's degree in Marburg in 1748 , but was elected as a preacher in Kassel in the same year. In 1755 he graduated as Dr. theol. at the University in Göttingen and received on June 1, 1755 a reputation as a professor of theology at the University of Rinteln . There he also became a preacher in the town church of St. Nikolai in 1758 .

On February 16, 1762, he was appointed as the successor to the popular Johann Philipp Fresenius to the senior position of the Lutheran Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt am Main . Linked to this was the role of a preacher at the Barefoot Church .

Plitt comes from Johann Wolfgang Goethe in his autobiography From my life. Poetry and truth described as "a great, beautiful, worthy man, who, however, had brought with him from the chair ... more the gift of teaching than of edification." For Plitt initially found it difficult to win over the Frankfurt citizens with his academic style of preaching, but he gained increasing reputation in the city community through active pastoral work and an open house. In 1764 he gave the sermon for the coronation of Joseph II.

In 1772 he got involved in an examination of the Frankfurt learned advertisements , a literary-critical magazine. Their editors Johann Heinrich Merck and Johann Georg Schlosser belonged to Goethe's Circle of Friends, who regularly wrote reviews for the advertisements. Plitt had taken offense at several reviews of theological writings, most of which came from the pen of the Enlightenment theologian Karl Friedrich Bahrdt . Although the advertisements lost the fight for freedom of the press , the dispute earned Plitt a lot of ridicule because of his clumsy demeanor.

On January 15, 1750, Plitt married the pastor's daughter Henriette Charlotte Schlosser († 1796) in Kassel, with whom he had seven daughters and four sons, including pastor Johann Ludwig Christian Plitt (1753-1800) and the lawyer and resident Johann Friedrich von Plitt (1761-1823).

Plitt died on April 7, 1773 in Frankfurt of pneumonia which he contracted on a trip to Kassel.

Works

A complete list of his published sermons and treatises can be found in Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder's Basis for a Hessian Scholar and Writer History, from the Reformation to the present day .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poetry and Truth. Fourth book [Grossherzog Wilhelm Ernst edition, volume 3], Insel Verlag Leipzig 1920, pp. 154f
  2. ↑ Volume 11, Kassel 1797, (Pfaffm-Roh.), Pp. 100–122, online in the Google book search
predecessor Office successor
Johann Philipp Fresenius Senior of the Ministry of Preachers in Frankfurt am Main
1762–1773 		Gabriel Christoph Benjamin Mosche
personal data
SURNAME Plitt, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plitt, Johann Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and pastor
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1727
PLACE OF BIRTH Weather (Hessen)
DATE OF DEATH April 7, 1773
Place of death Frankfurt am Main