Johann Friedrich Plessing
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a Lutheran theologian of Germany,. was born at Conitz, Prussia, October 28, 1720. He studied at Jena and Leipsic, was in 1746 preacher at Cothen, in 1764 at Wernigerode, and died December 31, 1793. He wrote, Versuch vom Ursprung der Abgotterei (Leipsic, 1757-58, 2 volumes): — Die Auferstehungs-Geschichte Jesu Christi (1785; 2d ed. 1788): — Harmonische Geschichte der Aurferstehung Jesu Christi (Wernugerode, 1789): — Ueber Golgotha und Christi Grab (Halle, eod.). See Doring, Die Gelehrten Theologen Deutschlands, s.v.; Winer, Handbuch der theol. Lit. 1:560, 561. (B.P.)
