Plessing, Friedrich Victor-lebrecht

Plessing, Friedrich Victor-Lebrecht a German philosopher, was born at Belleben, near Magdeburg, Dec. 20, 1752. He was the son of John Frederick Plessing, who was counselor of the consistory at Werningerode, and wrote an Essai sur l'Origine du Paganisme (Leips. 1757-1758, 2 vols. 8vo), and a Histoire des Tombeaux (Werningerode, 1786, 8vo); he died in 1793. Young Plessing attended the theological courses at different universities, and finally devoted himself to philosophy at Konigsberg, under Kant's direction. From 1788 he was a professor of that science at Duisburg. He died Feb. 8, 1806. He left, Von der Nothwendigkeit des Uebels und der Schmerzen bei fuhlenden Geschspfen (Dessau, 1783, 8vo): — Osiris und Socrates (Berl. 1783, 8vo): — Historische Untersuchusgen über die Theologie und Philosophie der dltesfen Volker bis auf Aristoteles Zeiten (Elbingen, 1785, 8vo): — Memonium, oder Versuch zur Enthüllung der Geheimnisse des Alterthum (Leips. 1787, 2 vols. 8vo): — Versuche zur Aufklärung der Philosophie des a'ltesten Alterthum (ibid. 1788-1790, 5 vols. 8vo). — Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. Géneralé, 40, 465.