Gottlieb Jakob Planck

Educated for the Protestant ministry at Blaubeuren, Bebenhausen and T�bingen[?], he became repetent at T�bingen in 1774, preacher at Stuttgart in 1780, and professor of theology at G�ttingen in 1784.

At T�bingen he wrote Das Tagebuch eines neuen Ehemannes. In 1781 he published anonymously the first volume of his Geschichte des protestantischen Lehrbegriffs; the second, also anonymous, appearing in 1783, and it was completed in six volumes in 1800. It was followed by an extensive Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschaftsverfassung in five volumes (1803-1809). Both are works of considerable importance, and are characterized by abundant learning. He died on the 31st of August 1833.

His son Heinrich Ludwig Planck (1785-1831), also professor of theology at G�ttingen, published Bemerkungen �ber den ersten Brief an den Timotheus (1808) and Abriss d. philos. Religionslehre (1821).

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.