Wilhelm Ludwig Nitzsch

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Wilhelm Ludwig Nitzsch (born July 1, 1703 in Eutin , † April 28, 1758 in Wittenberg ) was a German Lutheran theologian.

Life

The son of the Imperial Count Palatine, Privy Councilor of the Prince of Holstein and Bishop of Lübeck, Gregor Nitzsch († September 16, 1705 in Eutin) and his wife Catharina Eleonora (born June 5, 1675 in Gießen; † September 5, 1720 in Kemberg), Daughter of Philipp Ludwig Hanneken , initially enjoyed private lessons in Wittenberg. After attending the city school in Kemberg , he began studying theology at the University of Wittenberg in 1721 .

On April 29, 1724, he acquired the academic degree of Magister of philosophy and received on 17 October 1726 Magister legens the read-aloud permission for universities. On November 12, 1729 he was ordained pastor of Apollensdorf in Wittenberg. After working in this position for 21 years, he went to the city ​​church of Wittenberg as the fourth deacon in 1750 and rose to the third deaconate in 1758, which he held until the end of his life.

Nitzsch married Katharina Elisabeth, the daughter of the Coswig provost Martin Ernst Richter and his wife Anna Sophie (née Siegfried). From this marriage there were two sons and two daughters. The son Karl Ludwig Nitzsch was an important theologian.

Selection of works

  • Evangelical hymns of praise. s. l. 1732
  • Sounds of joy and lament in songs from the Gospels . Mühlhausen / Langensalza 1740
  • Evangelical Denck songs according to the instructions of the oldest church fathers , Mühlhausen 1740
  • Evangelical Nebo: Christian death songs about all Sunday and feast day evangelia. Wittenberg 1740
  • Evangelical saron. Leipzig 1741
  • De fonte viventis et videntis, ad Genes. XVI, 13. 14. Wittenberg 1749
  • De horto Gethsamene perpessione sospitatoris illustri Exercitatio. Wittenberg 1750

literature

  • Johann Georg Meusel : Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Leipzig 1810, Vol. 10, 116
  • Veronika Albrecht Birckner: Pastors book of the church province of Saxony. Leipzig 2007, Vol. 6, 331

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Epitaph in the Kemberger St. Marienkirche
personal data
SURNAME Nitzsch, Wilhelm Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1703
PLACE OF BIRTH Eutin
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1758
Place of death Wittenberg