Editing Gottlieb Jakob Planck (section)

==Biography==
Planck was born at [[Nürtingen]] in [[Duchy of Württemberg|Württemberg]], where his father was a [[Civil law notary|notary]]. Educated for the Protestant ministry at [[Blaubeuren]], [[Bebenhausen]] and [[University of Tübingen|Tübingen]], he became a lecturer at Tübingen in 1774, a preacher at [[Stuttgart]] in 1780, and a professor of [[church history]] at the [[University of Göttingen]] in 1784.<ref name=AD>[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Planck,_Gottlieb_Jakob ADB:Planck, Gottlieb Jakob] at [[Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]]</ref>

At Tübingen he wrote ''Das Tagebuch eines neuen Ehemannes''. In 1781 he published the first volume of ''Geschichte des protestantischen Lehrbegriffs'' (History of the Protestant teaching concept); the second volume appeared in 1783, and it was eventually completed in six volumes in 1800. It was followed by an extensive ''Geschichte der christlich-kirchlichen Gesellschaftsverfassung'' (History of the Christian church's social constitution) in five volumes (1803–1809).<ref name=AD/>

He died in [[Göttingen]] on 31 August 1833. His son '''Heinrich Ludwig Planck''' (1785–1831), also professor of [[theology]] at Göttingen, published ''Bemerkungen über den ersten Paulinischen brief an den Timotheus'' (1808) and ''Abriss der philosophischen Religionslehre'' (1821).<ref>[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz6744.html Planck, Heinrich Ludwig] at Deutsche Biographie</ref>