{{Short description|German Protestant theologian and educator}} thumb|upright|Leopold Witte, 1855 '''Leopold Witte''' (9 June 1836, in Halle an der Saale – 2 December 1921) was a German Protestant theologian and educator. He was the son of Dante scholar Karl Witte (1800–1883).<ref>[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Witte,_Karl ADB:Witte, Karl] at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie</ref>
From 1853 to 1857 he studied Protestant theology at the universities of Halle and Heidelberg, and afterwards worked as a tutor at the Prussian Embassy in Rome. In 1861 he was ordained as a minister in Berlin, and he subsequently served as a pastor in the town of Cöthen, near Eberswalde. From 1873 to 1879 he lived in the United States, and following his return to Germany, served as a professor and superintendent at Schulpforta (1879–1900). In 1888 he received an honorary doctorate in theology from the University of Greifswald.<ref>[http://www.eva-leipzig.de/material/leseproben/pdf/zw_9783374021420_digital_LP.pdf Pfarrerbuch der Kirchenprovinz Sachsen] - Evangelische Verlagsanstalt publisher</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=y3FJAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Witte%2C+Leopold%22+1836+Halle&pg=PA1061 Lexikon für Theologie und Kirchenwesen: Lehre, Geschichte und Kultus ...] by Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, Richard Otto Zöpffel</ref> == Published works == He was the author of a well-received biography on theologian August Tholuck, titled ''Das Leben d. Friedrich August Gottreu Tholuck's'', (2 volumes, 1884–86). His treatise on humanist Pietro Carnesecchi and the Italian Inquisition, ''Pietro Carnesecchi : ein Bild aus der italienischen Märtyrergeschichte'' (1883),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P98YMwEACAAJ Pietro Carnesecchi. Ein Bild Aus Der Italienischen Märtyrergeschichte] Google Books</ref> was translated into English and published as: [https://archive.org/details/AGlanceAtTheItalianInquisition ''A glance at the Italian Inquisition: a sketch of Pietro Carnesecchi: his trial before the supreme court of the papal inquisition in Rome, and his martyrdom in 1566''] (John Thomas Betts, 1885). His other principal works include: * ''Friedrich der Grosse und die Jesuiten'', 1892 – Frederick the Great and the Jesuits. * ''Die erneuerung der Schlosskirche zu Wittenberg : eine that evangelischen Bekenntnisses'', 1894 – The renewal of the All Saints' Church, Wittenberg. * ''Richard Rothe über Jesus als Wundertäter'', 1907 – Richard Rothe on Jesus as a miracle worker.<ref>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Witte,Leopold,1836-1921.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library] (published works)</ref>
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