Biography
Pastor Dorn was born in Walershausen bei Gotha (Württemberg) on 6 February 1765 to merchant Johannes Dorn & Catharina Raff. He came to Russia from Winnenden, Württemberg. He became a student of theology on 9 April 1782 in Tübingen and obtained his masters there on 24 September 1783. He served the congregation in Galka from 1792-1794 and died there on 26 November 1794.
Sources
Amburger, Erik. Die Pastoren der evangelischen Kirchen Rußlands (Lüneburg, Germany: Institut Nordostdeutsches Kulturwerk, 1998).
Schnurr, Joseph. Die Kirchen und das religiöse Leben der Russlanddeutschen – Evangelischer Teil (Stuttgart: AER Verlag Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Rußland, 1978.