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Mar 27, 1836 Genin, Schleswig Holstein, Germany Died on 10 Sep 1880 (aged 44)
German theologian
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About Gustav Leopold Plitt
- 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.
