Friedrich August Berthold Nitzsch

{{Short description|German theologian}}

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

The son of Karl Immanuel Nitzsch, he became professor ordinarius of theology at Gießen in 1868 and at Kiel in 1872.[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Nitzsch,_Friedrich_August_Berthold ADB:Nitzsch, Friedrich August Berthold] at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie He was the author of Das System des Boethius ("The system of Boethius"; 1860) and Grundriss der christlichen Dogmengeschichte, t. I, Die patristische Periode ("Outline on the Christian history of dogma, part 1: The patrician era"; 1870), amongst other texts.[http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ANitzsch%2C+Friedrich.&qt=hot_author OCLC WorldCat] (published works)