Gottlieb Jakob Planck

Gottlieb Jakob Planck ( * November 15, 1751 in Nürtingen; † 31 August 1833 in Göttingen ) was a German Protestant theologian and church historian. He is the great-grandfather of Max Planck.

Life

Planck was the oldest of 16 siblings and attended the Nürtinger Latin School, then from 1763 to 1765 Convent pupils in Bebenhausen and blue Beuren, then studied with ducal scholarship to 1774 in Tübingen theology. 1775-1780 worked as Planck Stiftsrepetent at Tubingen from 1781 to 1784 he was a preacher and associate professor at the high school Charles in Stuttgart. In 1784 he received - even the mediation of his friend Ludwig Timotheus Spittler - the appointed Professor of Church History in Göttingen. From 1828 until his death in 1833 Planck was abbot of the monastery Bursfelde at Hann. Munden in the Weser mountain country.

Planck was a representative of the rationalistic supernaturalism. His most important work is the history of the origin, the changes and the formation of the Protestant teaching concept.