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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 430 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DORNBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:grand-duchy of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar, romantically situated on a See also:hill 400 ft. above the See also:Saale, on the railway Grossheringen-See also:Jena and 7 in. N.E. of the latter. Pop. 700. Dornburg is an See also:ancient town, but is chiefly famous for its three grand-ducal castles. Of these, the Altes Schloss is built on the site of an imperial stronghold (Kaiserpfalz), once a See also:bulwark against the Slays, often a See also:residence of the emperors See also:Otto II. and Otto III., and where the See also:emperor See also:Henry II. held a See also:diet in 1005; the Neues Schloss in See also:Italian See also:style of See also:architecture, built 1728-1748, with See also:pretty gardens. Here See also:Goethe was often a See also:guest, " healing the blows of See also:fate and the wounds of the See also:heart in Dornburg." The third and southernmoseof the three is the so-called Stohmannsches Rittergut, See also:purchased in 1824 and fitted as.a See also:Dorner set to See also:work upon a See also:history of, the development of the See also:doctrine of the See also:person of See also:Christ, Entwicklungsgeschichte der Lehre von der Person Christi. He published the first See also:part of it in 1835, the See also:year in which See also:Strauss, his colleague, gave to the public his See also:Life of Jesus; completed it in 1839, and afterwards considerably enlarged it for a second edition (1845-1856). It was an indirect reply to Strauss, which showed " profound learning, objectivity of See also:judgment, and See also:fine appreciation of the moving ideas of history" (Otto See also:Pfleiderer). The author at once took high See also:rank as a theologian and historian, and in 1839 was invited to See also:Kiel as See also:professor ordinarius. It was here that he produced, amongst other See also:works, Das Princip unserer Kirche nach dem innern Verhaltniss seiner zwei Seiten betrachtet (1841). In 1843 he removed as professor of See also:theology to See also:Konigsberg.

Thence he was called to See also:

Bonn in 1847, and to See also:Gottingen in 1853. Finally in 1862 he settled in the same capacity at See also:Berlin, where he was a member of the supreme consistorial See also:council. A few years later (1867) he published his valuable Geschichte der protestantischen Theologie (Eng. trans., History of See also:Protestant Theology,2 vols.;1871), in which he " See also:developed and elaborated, as Pfleiderer says, " his own convictions by his diligent and loving study of the history of the See also:Church's thought and belief." The theological positions to which he ultimately attained are best seen in his Christliche Glaubenslehre, published shortly before his See also:death (1879-1881). It is "a work extremely See also:rich in thought and See also:matter. It takes the reader through a See also:mass of See also:historical material by the examination and discussion of ancient and See also:modern teachers, and so leads up to the author's own view, which is mostly one intermediate between the opposite extremes, and appears as a more or less successful See also:synthesis of antagonistic theses " (Pfleiderer). The See also:companion work, See also:System der christlichen Sittenlehre, was published by his son See also:August Dorner in 1886. He also contributed articles to See also:Herzog-Hauck's Realencyklopeidie, and was the founder and for many years one of the editors of the Jahrbiicher See also:fur deutsche Theologie. He died at See also:Wiesbaden oh the 8th of See also:July 1884. One of the most noteworthy of the " mediating " theologians, he has been ranked with See also:Friedrich See also:Schleiermacher, J. A. W. See also:Neander, Karl See also:Nitzsch, See also:Julius See also:Muller. and See also:Richard See also:Rothe.

His son, AuousT (b. 1846), after studying at Berlin and acting as Repetent at Gottingen (1870-1873), became professor of theology and co-director of the theological See also:

seminary at See also:Wittenberg. Amongst his works is Augustinus, sein theologisches System and See also:seine religionsphilosoph. Anschauung (1873), and he is the author of the See also:article on See also:Isaac Dorner in the Allgemeine deutsche Biographic. See Herzog-Hauck, Realencyklopadie; Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (19o4) ; Otto Pfleiderer, The Development of Theology in Germany since See also:Kant (1890); F. Lichtenberger, History of See also:German Theology in the Nineteenth See also:Century (1889); Carl See also:Schwarz, fur Geschichte der neuesten Theologie (1869). (M. A.

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