Petrus Munck

Petrus Munck (14 July 1732 – 18 July 1803) was a Swedish professor and bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1794 to 1803. He was the father of doctor Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld and singer Brita Catharina Lidbeck.

Biography Munck was born to Zacharias Munck and Catharina Sophia Winding in Trolle-Ljungby parish in Scania, where his father was vicar. Both the faculty of theology and the faculty of philosophy refused to grade the thesis. This was done by order of the chancellery.

Munck was offered a docentship in politics by Johan Ihre, but preferred to return to Lund, where he was ordained and became an adjunct professor of theology in 1757. Although he was passed over for the doctorate in theology in 1768, he succeeded, after complaining to the university's chancellor, in taking the dissertation examination and then receiving his doctorate. The dissertation, entitled (1769), was a dispute and response to the later dean of Skara, , who had attacked Munck because of his notes on conversion that he had added to Danish theologian , published by him in 1760, a work that long remained the accepted textbook in theology throughout Scandinavia and was published in four large editions.

Theologically, he held to orthodox Lutheran views and was a strong opponent of both Swedenborgianism and Moravianism. Munck also influenced Gustav IV Adolf's anti-Enlightenment views. He had eleven children, including singer Brita Catharina Lidbeck and doctor Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld. One daughter married doctor and another married admiralty superintendent Anders Lars Fahnehjelm. His son Johan Munck af Rosenschöld was a chief magistrate, father of and grandfather of Salomon Eberhard Henschen.