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. == References ==