August Johannes Dorner

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August Johannes Dorner
Tomb at the Stöcken city cemetery in Hanover

August Johannes Dorner (born May 13, 1846 in Schiltach ; † April 17, 1920 in Hanover ) was a German Protestant theologian and university professor.

Life

The son of the professor of theology Isaak August Dorner studied in Berlin , at the University of Göttingen and at the University of Tübingen . In Berlin he received his doctorate in philosophy in 1867 and a licentiate in theology in 1869. Then he became vicar in the Württemberg town of Neuhausen. In 1869 he went to Lyon and Marseille as assistant preacher and in 1870 as a repetiteur at the University of Göttingen.

In 1873 he was given a professorship at the seminary in Wittenberg ; he became associate director of the facility. In Wittenberg he had earned merit by further developing the library of the seminary and he was the founder of a scientific exhibition concept in the Wittenberg Lutherhaus .

In 1883 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the theological faculty at the University of Halle . In 1889 he accepted a call as associate professor of theology at the University of Königsberg , where in 1891 he was given the full professorship of systematic theology. Here he had taken over the role of Rector of the Alma Mater in 1908/09 . After he retired in 1916, he stayed in the last years of his life in Bad Godesberg and Hanover, where he finally died.

His son Alexander Dorner (born January 19, 1893 in Koenigsberg; † November 2, 1957 Sorrento (Naples)), the president of the Kestner Society in Hanover, is known from his marriage to Alice Hasselmeyer (1862–?), Who was born in India was.

Act

Dorner attached importance to the fact that budding theologians did not pursue backward-looking studies, but deal with the spiritual currents of the time and modern philosophy. At a time when the skepticism in philosophy was growing, he was committed as a representative of idealism for the theories of Hegel's religion. He dealt critically with Georg Rietschel . With the Hegelian Alois Emanuel Biedermann , but above all with his father's theological system, he found points of contact to pave the way for an ethically determined metaphysics.

Works

  • De Baconis baronis de Verulamio philosophia. 1867 ( online )
  • Aurelius Augustine, his theological system and his religious-historical view. 1873
  • About the principles of Kantian ethics. 1875
  • Schelling, in memory of his centenary birthday. 1875
  • Sermons of the Kingdom of God. 1880
  • Church and Kingdom of God. 1883
  • Human knowledge. Baselines of epistemology u. Metaphysics. 1887
  • In memory of Isaak August Dorner. 1888
  • Human action: philosophical ethics. 1895
  • The task of the universities: Speech given on January 27th in the auditorium of the Albertus University in Königsberg. 1904
  • Individual and social ethics. 1906
  • The emergence of the Christian doctrines. 1906
  • The unity of the sciences in the university organism. 1909
  • Ms. DE Schleiermacher, Werke. 1910, 4th vol.
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy, with special reference to epistemology and the theory of categories. 1910
  • Philosophy and Theology in the 19th Century. 1910
  • Pessimism. Nietzsche et al. Naturalism with a special relation to religion. 1911;
  • The metaphysics of Christianity. 1913
  • Politics, law and morals related to the current war. 1914

literature

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  DORNER, August. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 1361.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive )
  • Herrmann AL Degener : Who is it? Our contemporaries. Contemporaries lexicon containing biographies and bibliographies. Information about origin, family, curriculum vitae, works, favorite occupations, party affiliation, membership in societies, address. Other communications of general interest. Verlag Degener, Leipzig, 1908, p. 280
  • Otto Dibelius : The royal seminary at Wittenberg 1817-1917. Edwin Runge publishing house, Berlin, 1917,
  • Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson: Encyclopedia of Living Divines and Christian Workers of all Denominations in Europe and America. Funk & Wagnalls, New-York, 1887, p. 57

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Prutz : The Royal Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia in the nineteenth century, to celebrate its 350th anniversary. Hartung Verlag, Königsberg, 1894, p. 312
personal data
SURNAME Dorner, August Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Schiltach
DATE OF DEATH April 17, 1920
Place of death Hanover