Gustav Leopold Plitt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gustav Leopold Plitt

German theologian

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1836

Place of Birth: Genin, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Date of Death: 10-Sep-1880

Profession: theologian, university teacher, church historian

Nationality: German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Gustav Leopold Plitt (27 March 1836, Genin, near Lübeck – 10 September 1880, Erlangen) was a German Protestant theologian. From 1854 to 1858 he studied theology at the Universities of Erlangen and Berlin.
At Erlangen he was influenced by the work of Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann.
In January 1862 he became a privat-docent of theology at Erlangen, where he later became an associate professor (1867) and a full professor of theology (1876).Beginning in 1877, he assisted Johann Jakob Herzog with a new edition of "Realenzyklopädie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche" (Edition 2: 18 volumes, 1877-1888).
Upon Plitt's death in 1880, edition and publication of the encyclopedia was continued by Herzog and church historian Albert Hauck.