Karl Ludwig Nitzsch
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [1]
father of the preceding, and likewise a noted German theologian, though not equally famous, was born in 1751, and was educated at Jena and Halle. After preaching for some time he became professor of theology at Wittenberg University, and there so distinguished himself that he was placed at the head of the Homiletical Seminary, and made general superintendent of religion. He died in 1831. He wrote a "Dissertation on the Sense of the Apostles' Decree, Acts 15:29," in the Commentationes Theologicae, vol. vi, and various other pieces in current periodicals and theological collections in Germany. A pretty full account of his life and writings is given in Herzog, Real-Encyklopadie, 10:387-392, by his son, Karl Immanuel, of whom we have treated above.
The Nuttall Encyclopedia [2]
German theologian, born at Borna; became professor at Bonn, Saxony, in 1822, whence in 1847 he was removed to succeed Marheineke at Berlin; was of the Schleiermacher school of theologians, and author, among other works, of a "System der Christlichen Lehre" and "Practische Theologie," the former an able work, but most vilely translated into English, and the latter in evidence of the importance the author attached to the ethical element in the Christian religion (1787-1860).
