Friedrich August Berthold Nitzsch

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Friedrich August Berthold Nitzsch (born February 19, 1832 in Bonn , † December 21, 1898 in Kiel ) was a German Protestant theologian.

Life

Friedrich August Berthold Nitzsch was born in Bonn in 1832 as the son of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch . In 1847 he moved to Berlin with his father. In Berlin he graduated from the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in 1850 . There he had mainly turned to the ancient languages ​​and moved to the University of Berlin to study philology, but switched to theology in the first semester. He also studied at the Friedrichs University of Halle and the University of Bonn , where he attended lectures by the most learned men of his time .

After he had completed his first theological exam in July 1855, he obtained permission to read aloud at universities as a lecturer and became an assistant teacher, later a collaborator at the Gray Monastery high school . On June 12, 1858, he was promoted to licentiate and completed his habilitation in Berlin on July 16, 1859. In the same year he followed a call to the University of Vienna , where he did not receive a university qualification. On August 2, 1866, he received his doctorate in theology at the University of Greifswald and became a full professor of theology at the University of Giessen on May 2, 1868 . In the same position he went to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel on April 1, 1872 . In Kiel he was also consistorial councilor. In 1889/90 he was rector .

Selection of works

  • Textbook of Evangelical Dogmatics. Mohr, Freiburg im Breisgau 1889, (3rd edition, 1912)
  • Luther and Aristotle . Festschrift for Luther's four-century birthday. University bookstore, Kiel 1883
  • Outline of the Christian history of dogma. ES Mittler, Berlin 1870
  • The idea and the stages of the sacrificial cult. A contribution to the general history of religion. University bookstore, Kiel 1889
  • The system of Boethius and the theological writings ascribed to it. Wiegandt and Grieben, Berlin 1860
  • The closing words of Goethe's Faust. G. Reimer, Berlin 1885, (special print from Prussian yearbooks vol. 56, no.2)
  • Theses theologicae. Schade, Berolini (Berlin) 1858

Individual evidence

  1. Rector's speech (HKM)

literature

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