Planck, Karl Christian

Planck, Karl Christian a philosophical writer of Germany, was born at Stuttgart, January 17, 1819. He studied theology at Tubingen, and commenced his academical career in 1848 as lecturer in philosophy. In 1856 he was professor at the gymnasium in Ulm, in 1869 at the seminary in Blaubeuren, in 1879 ephorus of the seminary at Maulbronn, and died June 7, 1880. He published, Gesetz und Ziel der neueren Kunstentwickelung (Stuttgart, 1870): — Seele und Geist (1871): — Wahrheit und Flachheit des Darwinismius (1872): Arundriss der Logik (1873): — Anthropologie und Psycholoqgie (1874): — Logisches Causalgesetz und naturliche Zweckthatigkeit (1877): — Ziel und Entwickelungsgesetz der alten Philosophie (1877): — Testament eines Deutschen (edited after the author's death by K. Klstlin, Tubingen, 1881). (B.P.)