Isaak August Dorner

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Isaak August Dorner

Isaak August Dorner (born June 20, 1809 in Neuhausen ob Eck ; † July 8, 1884 in Wiesbaden ) was a German Protestant theologian, theology professor in Tübingen , Kiel , Königsberg , Bonn , Göttingen and Berlin and an influential Protestant church politician.

Life

Dorner studied Protestant theology and philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen since 1829 . In 1834 he became a repeat professor and in 1838 associate professor of theology in Tübingen, 1839 professor at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , 1843 at the University of Königsberg , 1847 at the University of Bonn , 1853 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , finally in 1862 senior consistorial councilor and Professor of Systematic Theology (until 1883) at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin. There he was also the first ephorus of the evangelical-theological Konvikt Johanneum , which he supervised intensively.

Dorner was already active in church politics as a consistorial councilor in Königsberg. As a member of the Prussian General Synod in 1846 , he advocated the Prussian Union and a reform of the church constitution . In 1848 he published a call for the separation of the church from the state, which he considered to be inevitable after the upheavals of the March Revolution . In doing so, he influenced the founding of the German Protestant Church Congress , in which he participated intensively. Under President Emil Herrmann , he was considered the theological authority of the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Evangelical Regional Church in Prussia .

His son August Johannes Dorner (1846–1920) was also professor of theology in Königsberg.

Works (selection)

  • Development history of the doctrine of the person of Christ . Stuttgart 1839
  • Pietism, especially in Württemberg . Hamburg 1840
  • The doctrine of the person of Christ . 3 vols. Stuttgart 1846–56
  • Letter about reform of the Protestant regional churches in connection with the establishment of an Evangelical-German national church . 1848
  • About the theological concept of union and its relationship to the Confession . 1856
  • About the correct formulation of the dogmatic concept of the immutability of God. In: Yearbooks for German Theology, Vol. 1, 1856, pp. 361–416; Vol. 2, pp. 440-500; Vol. 3, pp. 579-660.
  • History of Protestant Theology . Munich 1867
  • System of Christian doctrine . 2 vols. Berlin 1879–81
  • System of Christian moral teaching . Berlin 1885

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personal data
SURNAME Dorner, Isaac August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dorner, Isaac August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, university professor and church politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen ob Eck
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1884
Place of death Wiesbaden