Gustav Leopold Plitt (27 March 1836, Genin, near Lübeck – 10 September 1880, Erlangen) was a German Protestant theologian.
At Erlangen he was influenced by the work of Johann Christian Konrad von Hofmann.
[1] 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.
[2][3] Plitt's main work, an introduction to the Augsburg Confession ("Einleitung in die Augustana"), was published in two parts: Other noted works by Plitt include: