Editing Karl Immanuel Nitzsch (section)

== Biography ==
He was born in the small Saxon town of Borna near [[Leipzig]].  His father, [[Karl Ludwig Nitzsch]], at that time pastor and [[Superintendent (ecclesiastical)|superintendent]] in Borna, later (1790) became professor at [[Wittenberg]] and director (1817) of the seminary for preachers. He was sent to study at [[Schulpforta]] in 1803, going on to the [[University of Wittenberg]] in 1806. In 1809 he graduated, and in 1810 he became a ''[[privatdozent]]'' at the university. Having become a deacon at the Schlosskirche in 1811, he showed remarkable energy and zeal during the bombardment and siege of the city in 1813. In 1815 he was appointed a [[preceptor]] in the preachers' seminary which had been established at Wittenberg after the suppression of the university.

From 1820 to 1822 he was superintendent in [[Kemberg]], and in the latter year he was appointed professor ordinarius of systematic and practical theology at [[university of Bonn|Bonn]]. Here he remained until called to succeed [[Philip Marheineke]] at Berlin in 1847; subsequently he became university preacher, [[rector (academia)|rector]] of the university,<ref>[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd118735551.html Nitzsch, Carl (Karl) Immanuel] In: [[Neue Deutsche Biographie]] (NDB). Band 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, {{ISBN|3-428-00200-8}}, S. 293–295</ref> provost of St Nicolai (in 1854) and member of the supreme council of the church, in which last capacity he was one of the ablest and most active promoters of the Evangelical Union. He represented the ''Vermittelungstheologie'' of the school of [[Friedrich Schleiermacher]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=S1wa1n-pW74C&dq=Vermittelungstheologie+Nitzsch&pg=PA145 Karl Barth's Emergency Homiletic, 1932-1933: A Summons to Prophetic Witness ...] by Angela Dienhart Hancock</ref>