title: August Dorner
text: # August Dorner
  
  August Johannes Dorner (13 May 1846 in Schiltach, Württemberg – 17 April 1920 in Hannover) was a German Protestant theologian. He was the son of Isaak August Dorner.
  
  ## Biography
  
  After studying at Göttingen, Tübingen and Berlin, he served as vicar to the German congregation in Lyon and Marseilles. From 1870 to 1873 he was a lecturer at the University of Göttingen, then worked as a professor of theology and as co-director of the theological seminary at Wittenberg (1874-1889). In 1889 he was appointed professor of systematic theology at the University of Königsberg.
  
  ## Published works
  
  Amongst his works is Augustinus : sein theologisches System und seine religionsphilosoph Anschauung ("Augustinus, his theological system and its religious-philosophical viewpoint", 1873). His other principal writings include:
  
  * Das menschliche Handeln : philosophische Ethik, 1895 – Human action: philosophical ethics.
  * Die Entstehung der christlichen Glaubenslehren, 1906 – The emergence of Christian doctrines.
  * Individuelle und soziale Ethik, 1906 – Individual and social ethics.
  * Pessimismus, Nietzsche und naturalismus, mit besonderer beziehung auf die religion, 1911 – Pessimism; Nietzsche and naturalism with a special reference to religion.
  * Die Metaphysik des Christentums, 1913 – The metaphysics of Christianity.
  * Also, he was the author of the article on Isaak Dorner in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
  
  ## Legacy
  
  Dorner is commemorated in the naming of the August-Dorner-Ring in Lantershofen, Grafschaft.
  
  