Dorner

Dorner, ISAAC AUGUST, a great Protestant theologian, born 20th June 1809, near Tuttlingen, in Württemberg, studied theology and philosophy at Tübingen, next travelled in England and Holland, and had already filled chairs at Tübingen, Kiel, Königsberg, Bonn, and Göttingen, when in 1861 he was called to be professor at Berlin. Here he died, 8th July 1884. Dorner for many years took an active share in the administration of the church, but was saved from ever becoming a partisan by a singularly fair and well-balanced mind, and by his strong grasp of a real historical spirit, which he has done much to impress on modern German theology. His greatest work is the History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ (Eng. trans. 5 vols. 1861-63). Besides this, his History of Protestant Theology (1867), his System of Christian Doctrine (1880-81), and his Christian Ethics (1885), through their English translations, have become handbooks in England and America.