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KARL IMMANUEL NITZSCH (1787-1868)

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NITZSCH (1787-1868)  , Lutheran divine, was See also:born at the small Saxon See also:town of See also:Borna near See also:Leipzig on the 21st of See also:September 1787 . His See also:father, Karl See also:Ludwig See also:Nitzsch (1751–1831), who at that See also:time was pastor and See also:superintendent in Borna, and afterwards (1790) became See also:professor at See also:Wittenberg and director (1817) of the See also:seminary for preachers, has also See also:left a name of some distinction in the theological See also:world by a number of writings, among which may be mentioned a See also:work entitled De discrimine revelationis imperatoriae et didacticae prolusions academicae (2 vols., 1830) . Theologically, he represented a See also:combination of supernaturalism and See also:rationalism (supernatural rationalism or a Kantian rational supernaturalism) . Karl Immanuel was sent to study at Schulpforta in 1803, whence he proceeded to the university of Wittenberg in 1806 . In 1809 he graduated, and in 1810 he became a Privatdozent at the university . Having become diaconus at the Schlosskirche in 1811, he showed remarkable See also:energy and zeal during the See also:bombardment and See also:siege of the See also:city in 1813 . In 1817 he was appointed one of the preceptors 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 See also:year he was appointed professor ordinarius of systematic and See also:practical See also:theology at See also:Bonn . Here he remained until called to succeed See also:Marheineke at See also:Berlin in 1847; subsequently he became university preacher, See also:rector of the university, See also:provost of St See also:Nicolai (in 1854) and member of the supreme See also:council of the See also:church, in which last capacity he was one of the ablest and most active promoters of the Evangelical See also:Union . He died on the 21st of See also:August 1868 . He represented the Vermittelungstheologie of the school of See also:Schleiermacher . His son, See also:FRIEDRICH AUGUST NITZSCH (b .

1832), was made professor ordinarius of theology at See also:

Giessen in 1868 and at See also:Kiel in 1872 . He was the author of Grundriss der christl . Dogmengeschichte (187o, incomplete) and 'Das See also:System See also:des Boethius (1860), amongst other See also:works . Karl Nitzsch's See also:principal works are: System der christlichen Lehre (1829; 6th ed., 1851; Eng. trans., 1849), Praktische Theologie (1847-186o; 2nd ed., 1863-1868), Akademische Vortrdge fiber christliche Glaubenslehre (1858) and several See also:series of Predigten . " He took as his starting-point the fundamental thought of Schleiermacher, that See also:religion is not See also:doctrine but See also:life, See also:direct consciousness, feeling . At the same time he sought to bring religious feeling into closer connexion with knowledge and volition than Schleiermacher had done; he laid See also:special stress—and justly—on the recognition of a necessary and See also:radical union of religion with morality, treating both dogmatics and See also:ethics together accordingly in his System der christlichen Lehre" (See also:Otto See also:Pfleiderer, Development of Theology, p . 123) . His Protestantische Beantwortung, a reply to the Symbolik of Johann See also:Adam See also:Mohler (1796-1838), which originally appeared in the Studien u . Kritiken, of which he was one of the founders, may also be mentioned . See See also:Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie, and the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; F . Lichtenberger, See also:History of See also:German Theology in the Nineteenth See also:Century, pp . 185-196 .

NIU-CHWANG, a city of See also:

China, in the Manchurian See also:province of Sheng-See also:king (Liao-tung), in 40°' 53' N. and 122° 7' E., about 35 M . (90 M. by See also:water) from the See also:coast of the Gulf of Liao-tung, on what is now a small See also:branch of the See also:main eastern affluent of the Liao-ho . The See also:population is estimated at 8o,000 . The city proper is a comparatively unimportant See also:place with broken-down walls, but it is surrounded by a number of large and flourishing suburbs . About the beginning of the Ta-ts'See also:ing See also:dynasty (1644) Niu-chwang was the See also:chief See also:port on the See also:river, but in the reign of K'ien-See also:lung, owing mainly to See also:physical changes, it was supplanted by T'ien-chwang-tai farther down the stream, and towards the See also:close of the 18th century this had in turn to give place to Ying-tsze still nearer the mouth . In See also:ignorance of these facts Niu-chwang (now scarcely to be reached by a See also:flat-bottomed river See also:boat) was chosen as one of the ports to be opened to See also:foreign See also:trade by the treaty of Tien-tsin; and, though Ying-tsze had of necessitsy to be adopted as the site of the foreign settlements, Europeans still continue to speak of it as the port of Niu-chwang . Ying-tsze (otherwise known as Ying-k'ou, Niu-k'ou and in See also:Mandarin as Muh-k'ou-ying) lies on the left See also:bank of the Liao-ho on the lowest dry portion of the See also:plain, not much above high-water See also:mark . The See also:British See also:settlement immediately above the town.has a river frontage of See also:I000 yds. opposite the deepest of the reaches, and runs back to the See also:highway leading to Niu-chwang . Off the mouth of the river there is an extensive See also:bar of hard mud which can only be crossed by certain channels at high See also:tide, when it is covered by from 18 to 20 ft. of water; and the port is altogether closed by See also:ice for four or five months of the year, between See also:November and May . Niu-chwang has shown considerable vigour as a port of trade, sharing in the See also:general prosperity of the provinces of See also:Manchuria, of which it is the outlet . It was opened to foreign trade in 1858 . In 1864 the See also:total value of trade was £934,374, in 1878 £2,606,134, in 1898 £4,634,470, while in 1904 the figures reached £5,950,895 .

The principal exports (29%) are beans, See also:

bean-cake, bean-oil and See also:wild See also:silk . The bean-cake is a popular See also:article of See also:food with the natives of Kwang-tung and Fuh-kien, and is also largely employed for manuring the See also:rice and See also:sugar See also:fields in the neighbourhood of See also:Shanghai, See also:Amoy, See also:Swatow, &c . Of imports (71%) the principal are See also:cotton See also:yarn and cotton See also:cloth, most of the latter being See also:drawn from the See also:United States in preference to See also:English-made goods . The number of See also:resident foreigners is about 150 . See also:Railways connect the port with See also:Tientsin and See also:Peking on the one See also:hand, and with the See also:Russian territories lying to the See also:north on the other . In 1895 Niu-chwang was occupied by See also:Japanese troops, and the town was included in the cession of territory originally granted by the treaty of See also:peace . By a supplementary See also:convention it was retroceded by the Japanese under pressure of See also:France and See also:Russia . Niu-chwang suffered considerably from the disturbances of 1900 and again during the Russo-Japanese See also:war . In 1900 the Russians defeated the See also:Chinese troops who attacked the town, and took See also:possession `of the port,and administered affairs until they in their turn were driven out by Japanese . At the conclusion of the war the Japanese restored the port to China .

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