Editing Karl Immanuel Nitzsch

[[File:Karl Immanuel Nitzsch.jpg|thumb|Karl Immanuel Nitzsch in 1842.]]
'''Karl Immanuel Nitzsch''' (21 September 1787, [[Borna, Leipzig|Borna]] – 21 August 1868, [[Berlin]]) was a German [[Lutheran]] church leader. He was the father of theologian [[Friedrich August Nitzsch]].

== 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>

== Published works ==
Nitzsch's principal works are: ''System der christlichen Lehre'' (1829; 6th edition, 1851; English translation: [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/011556091?type%5B%5D=author&lookfor%5B%5D=%22Nitzsch%2C%20K.%20I.%201787-1868.%22&ft= ''System of Christian doctrine''] 1849), ''Praktische Theologie'' (1847-1860; 2nd edition, 1863-1868), ''Akademische Vorträge über christliche Glaubenslehre'' (1858), and several series of sermons. According to [[Otto Pfleiderer]], (''Development of Theology'', p.&nbsp;123): "He took as his starting-point the fundamental thought of Schleiermacher, that religion is not doctrine but life, direct consciousness, feeling. At the same time he sought to bring religious feeling into closer connection with knowledge and volition than Schleiermacher had done; he laid special stress &ndash; and justly &ndash; on the recognition of a necessary and radical union of religion with morality, treating both dogmatics and ethics together accordingly in his ''System der christlichen Lehre''". His ''Protestantische Beantwortung'', a reply to the ''Symbolik'' of [[Johann Adam Möhler]] (1796-1838),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=L9EQAAAAIAAJ Eine protestantische Beantwortung der Symbolik Dr. Möhler's] Google Books</ref> which originally appeared in the ''Studien und Kritiken'', of which he was one of the founders, may also be mentioned.

==References==
*{{EB1911|wstitle=Nitzsch, Karl Immanuel|volume=19|pages=717–718}}
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