August Dorner

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 1867 as a doctor of philosophy and a licentiate in theology in 1869. He then became vicar in the village of Neuhausen Württemberg. In 1869 he was assistant pastor to Lyon and Marseille and 1870 as Repetent to the University of Göttingen.

1873 he was given a professorship at the seminary at Wittenberg, and he was thus connected deputy director of the facility. In Wittenberg he had acquired merit by developing further the library of the Seminary and he was the founder of the scientific exhibition concept in Wittenberg, Luther House.

Him an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the University of Halle in 1883 awarded. In 1889 he accepted an appointment as associate professor of theology at the University of Königsberg, where in 1891 he was put in full professor of systematic theology. Here he took on the task of the rector of the Alma Mater in 1908 /09. After he retired in 1916, he lived in his last years in Bad Godesberg and Hanover, where he eventually died.

From his marriage with the Indian-born Englishwoman Alice Hassel Meyer (? 1862 - ) son of Alexander Dorner 's ( born January 19, 1893 in Königsberg, † November 2, 1957 Sorrento ( Naples) ) is known, the President of the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover had.

Work

Dorner insisted that aspiring theologians not run backward-looking studies, but should deal with the spiritual currents of the time and of modern philosophy. In a time where the skepticism in the philosophy reinforced he engaged himself as a representative of idealism for the theories of Hegel's religion. With Georg Rietschel he analyzed critically. In the Hegelian Alois Emanuel Biedermann, but above all his father's theological system he found points of contact to pave a certain ethical metaphysics the way.

Works

  • De Baconis Baroni de Verulamio philosophia. 1867 ( Online)
  • Aurelius Augustine, his theological system and its religious-historical view. 1873
  • About the principles of Kantian ethics. 1875
  • Schelling, to commemorate his centennial birthday. 1875
  • Preaching the kingdom of God. 1880
  • Church and Kingdom of God. 1883
  • The human cognition. Baselines of epistemology and metaphysics. 1887
  • Human action: philosophical ethics. 1895
  • The mission of universities: Speech January 27, held in the auditorium of the Albertus University of Königsberg. 1904
  • Individual and Social Ethics. 1906
  • The emergence of the Christian doctrines. 1906
  • The unity of the sciences in the body of the university. 1909
  • Ms D. E. Schleiermacher works. 1910, 4 vols
  • Encyclopedia of Philosophy, with special consideration of epistemology and theory of categories. 1910
  • Philosophy and theology in the 19th century. 1910
  • Pessimism. Nietzsche and Naturalism with special reference to religion. 1911;
  • The metaphysics of Christianity. 1913
  • Politics, law and morality with respect to the war against wärtigen. 1914
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