August Johannes Dorner (13 May 1846 in Schiltach, Württemberg – 17 April 1920 in Hannover) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the son of

Isaak August Dorner Isaak August Dorner (20 June 1809 – 8 July 1884) was a German Lutheran church leader. He was a meditating theologian in nineteenth-century Germany who served as a professor of theology at the University of Berlin and had an international influenc ...

Biography

After studying at Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin, he served as vicar to the German congregation in Lyon and

Marseilles Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

. From 1870 to 1873 he was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen, then worked as a professor of theology and as co-director of the theological seminary at Wittenberg (1874-1889). In 1889 he was appointed professor of systematic theology at the University of Königsberg.

Published works

Amongst his works is ''Augustinus : sein theologisches System und seine religionsphilosoph Anschauung'' ("

Augustinus Augustine of Hippo ( , ; la, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Afri ...

, his theological system and its religious-philosophical viewpoint", 1873). His other principal writings include: * ''Das menschliche Handeln : philosophische Ethik'', 1895 – Human action: philosophical ethics. * ''Die Entstehung der christlichen Glaubenslehren'', 1906 – The emergence of Christian doctrines. * ''Individuelle und soziale Ethik'', 1906 – Individual and social ethics. * ''Pessimismus, Nietzsche und naturalismus, mit besonderer beziehung auf die religion'', 1911 – Pessimism; Nietzsche and naturalism with a special reference to religion. * ''Die Metaphysik des Christentums'', 1913 – The metaphysics of Christianity. * Also, he was the author of the article on Isaak Dorner in the ''

Allgemeine deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

''.ADB:Dorner, Isaak August
at

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie ''Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie'' (ADB, german: Universal German Biography) is one of the most important and comprehensive biographical reference works in the German language. It was published by the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Aca ...

Legacy

Dorner is commemorated in the naming of the August-Dorner-Ring in Lantershofen,

Grafschaft A ''Grafschaft'' was originally the name given to the administrative area in the Holy Roman Empire over which a count, or ''Graf'', presided as judge. It is often, therefore, translated as 'county'. The term has survived as a placename in German- ...

References

1846 births 1920 deaths 19th-century German Protestant theologians 20th-century German Protestant theologians People from Rottweil (district) Academic staff of the University of Königsberg German male non-fiction writers 19th-century male writers {{germany-theologian-stub