August Döring

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August Döring (born February 3, 1834 in Elberfeld (today Wuppertal ); † June 28, 1912 in Porto , Portugal ) was a German teacher, high school director and philosopher.

Life

Döring's father was the Lutheran pastor Carl August Döring . After attending grammar school in Elberfeld (1843-1851) and A levels there, Döring studied theology in Halle and Berlin and then spent a year as a diaspora preacher in Moresnet , near Aachen. During his studies in 1851 he became a member of the Salingia Halle fraternity . He then studied philosophy and classical philology in Halle and Bonn and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. After a subsequent trip to the USA he was a grammar school teacher in Kleve, Wesel and Barmen - Wilhelm Dörpfeld was his student there - and from 1870 to 1883 he was grammar school director in Dortmund. In 1870 he married Clara Augusta Metzmacher. For health reasons and in order to devote himself entirely to philosophy, he gave up this activity and in 1885, after his habilitation, became a private lecturer in Berlin.

Döring was a representative of critical realism and saw the main task of philosophy in the theory of goods .

Works (selection)

  • Aristotle's doctrine of art, Jena 1876
  • On the concept of philosophy, Dortmund 1878
  • Philosophical doctrine of goods, Berlin 1888
  • System of pedagogy, Berlin 1894
  • The doctrine of Socrates as a social reform system, Munich 1895
  • Hamlet, a new attempt at an aesthetic explanation of tragedy, Berlin 1898
  • Handbook of the human-natural moral theory, Stuttgart 1899
  • History of Greek Philosophy, Leipzig 1903
  • A spring trip to Greece, Frankfurt / M. 1903

Web links

Wikisource: August Döring  - Sources and full texts

literature

  • Wolfgang Gillen, August Döring. Philosophy as a doctrine of goods, in: Heide Heinz (ed.), Genii loci dispersi. Contributions to "Wuppertal Philosophers", Würzburg 1980

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistics of the Gymnasium zu Elberfeld, p. 75, no. 129 ( online ).
  2. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 38.
personal data
SURNAME Döring, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German teacher, grammar school director and philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1834
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1912
Place of death Porto , Portugal