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Plitt, Gustav Leopold

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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a noted Lutheran theologian of Germany, was born March 27, 1836, at Genin, near Lubeck. He studied at Erlangen and Berlin, and commenced his theological career at the former place in 1862. In 1866 he was made professor, and in 1872 doctor of theology. He died September 10, 1880. Plitt, who is best known as the associate editor of the second edition of Herzog's Real-Encyklopadie fur Protestantische Theologie und Kirche, published the following works: De Auctoritate Articulorum Smalcaldicorum Symbolica (Erlangen, 1852): Festpredigten deus heiligen Bernhard (1860): Melanchthon's Loci Communes in ihrer Urgestalt (1864): Einleitung in die Augustana (1867-68, 2 volumes): Aus Schelling's Leben in Briefen (1869-70, 3 volumes): Die Albrechtsleute oder die Evangelische Gemeinschaft (1877): Die Apologie der Augustana (1873): Grundriss der Symbolik fur Vorlesungen (1875): Iodokus Truffetter von Eisenach, der Lehrer Luther's (1876): Gabriel Biel als Prediger (1879): Dr. Martin Luther's Leben und Wirken (edited after Plitt's death by Petersen, Leipsic, 1883). See Plitt-Herzog, Real-Encyklop. s.v. (B.P.)

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Plitt, Gustav Leopold'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​p/plitt-gustav-leopold.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
 
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