Isaak August Dorner

Life

Dorner studied since 1829 at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen Protestant theology and philosophy. In 1834 he was Repetent and 1838 associate professor of theology at Tübingen, 1839 Professor at the Christian -Albrechts -University of Kiel, 1843 at the University of Königsberg in 1847 at the University of Bonn, 1853 at the Georg -August- University Göttingen, finally in 1862 Oberkonsistorialrat and Professor of Systematic theology ( until 1883 ) at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin. He was also the first headmaster of the Evangelical Theological Seminary Johanneum, which he supported them extensively.

Even in Königsberg Dorner had also been politically active as a church consistory. As a member of the Prussian General Synod in 1846, he entered the Prussian Union and for a reform of the Church Constitution. In 1848 he published a call for Separation of Church and State, which he held after the upheavals of the March revolution is inevitable. He influenced the founding of the German Protestant Church Congress, where he was deeply involved. Under President Emil Herrmann he was regarded as the theological authority of the Evangelical Supreme Ecclesiastical Council of the Evangelical Church in Prussia.

His son John August Dorner (1846-1920) was also a professor of theology at 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
• Epistle on reform of the Protestant churches in connection with the preparation of a Protestant German national church. 1848
• About the theological concept of the Union and its relationship to Confession. 1856
• History of Protestant theology. Munich 1867
• System of Christian doctrine. 2 vols Berlin 1879-81
• System of Christian ethics. Berlin 1885