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	{{GZ\|Hence my very "philosophy of freedom" has been called the philosophy of individualism in the most extreme sense. It had to be, because on the other hand it is the most Christian of philosophies.\|212\|103f}}		{{GZ\|Hence my very "philosophy of freedom" has been called the philosophy of individualism in the most extreme sense. It had to be, because on the other hand it is the most Christian of philosophies.\|212\|103f}}

	An attempt to become a professor in [[w:Jena\|Jena]] failed.		An attempt to become a professor in [[w:Jena\|Jena]] failed.

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	'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]], which must not be confused with his mere [[ego]].		'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]], which must not be confused with his mere [[ego]].

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	Steiner studied biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics at the [[w:Vienna\|Vienna]] [[w:TU Wien\|College of Technology]] ({{German\|''Technische Hochschule Wien''}}, now called [[w:TU Wien\|TU Wien]]) from 1879. The student developed a high regard for the German professor [[Karl-Julius Schröer]]. On Schröer's recommendation, he edited Goethe's scientific writings in Kürschner's Deutscher Nationalliteratur {{GZ\|\|28\|124f}} and published literary essays in newspapers. From 1882 to 1887 Steiner's family lived in [[Brunn am Gebirge]]. From 1884 to 1890 Steiner earned his living by working as a private tutor in a prominent Viennese family for a child with hydrocephalus who was considered unschoolable and who thus later studied medicine and became a doctor. He established a friendship with the poet [[Marie Eugenie delle Grazie]]. [[Marie Lang]] mediated a same with [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]], but Rudolf Steiner also cultivated more intensive contact with people such as the herbalist [[Felix Koguzki]].		Steiner studied biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics at the [[w:Vienna\|Vienna]] [[w:TU Wien\|College of Technology]] ({{German\|''Technische Hochschule Wien''}}, now called [[w:TU Wien\|TU Wien]]) from 1879. The student developed a high regard for the German professor [[Karl-Julius Schröer]]. On Schröer's recommendation, he edited Goethe's scientific writings in Kürschner's Deutscher Nationalliteratur {{GZ\|\|28\|124f}} and published literary essays in newspapers. From 1882 to 1887 Steiner's family lived in [[w:Brunn am Gebirge\|Brunn am Gebirge]]. From 1884 to 1890 Steiner earned his living by working as a private tutor in a prominent Viennese family for a child with hydrocephalus who was considered unschoolable and who thus later studied medicine and became a doctor. He established a friendship with the poet [[Marie Eugenie delle Grazie]]. [[Marie Lang]] mediated a same with [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]], but Rudolf Steiner also cultivated more intensive contact with people such as the herbalist [[Felix Koguzki]].

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	'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]], which must not be confused with his mere [[ego]].		'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]], which must not be confused with his mere [[ego]].

	With [[eurythmy]] Steiner created a new art of movement and with the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach as the seat of an independent [[School of Spiritual Science]] and through other buildings a new, organic architectural style. To a considerable extent he gave instruction in the art of recitation and declamation. The [[Waldorf school]] made possible more natural learning, [[biodynamic agriculture]] nourished life, the idea of the [[threefold social organism]] was to make possible the principle of freedom in spiritual life, equality in legal life and fraternity in economic life. Together with [[Ita Wegman]], Steiner created [[anthroposophic medicine]]. He also gave suggestions to experts in other arts and the [[natural sciences]], mostly at their request.		With [[eurythmy]] Steiner created a new art of movement and with the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach as the seat of an independent [[School of Spiritual Science]] and through other buildings a new, organic architectural style. To a considerable extent he gave instruction in the art of recitation and declamation. The [[Waldorf school]] made possible more natural learning, [[biodynamic agriculture]] nourished life, the idea of the [[threefold social organism]] was to make possible the principle of freedom in spiritual life, equality in legal life and fraternity in economic life. Together with [[Ita Wegman]], Steiner created [[anthroposophic medicine]]. He also gave suggestions to experts in other arts and the [[natural sciences]], mostly at their request.
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	In 1890, at Schröer's suggestion, Steiner took over the editing of [[w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]]'s scientific writings at the [[WikipediaDE:Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv\|Goethe and Schiller Archive]] in [[w:Weimar\|Weimar]] for the large Weimar Goethe edition, the so-called "Sophien-Ausgabe".		In 1890, at Schröer's suggestion, Steiner took over the editing of [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]]'s scientific writings at the [[WikipediaDE:Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv\|Goethe and Schiller Archive]] in [[w:Weimar\|Weimar]] for the large Weimar Goethe edition, the so-called "Sophien-Ausgabe".

	Steiner left the Technical University in Vienna without a degree, but completed his doctorate in [[w:Rostock\|Rostock]] in 1891 with his dissertation "Die Grundfrage der Erkenntnistheorie mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre. Prolegomena zur Verständigung des philosophischen Bewußtseins mit sich selbst" ("The Basic Question of Epistemology with Special Reference to Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. Prolegomena on the Understanding of Philosophical Consciousness with Itself") to the degree of Dr. phil.		Steiner left the Technical University in Vienna without a degree, but completed his doctorate in [[w:Rostock\|Rostock]] in 1891 with his dissertation "Die Grundfrage der Erkenntnistheorie mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Fichtes Wissenschaftslehre. Prolegomena zur Verständigung des philosophischen Bewußtseins mit sich selbst" ("The Basic Question of Epistemology with Special Reference to Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. Prolegomena on the Understanding of Philosophical Consciousness with Itself") to the degree of Dr. phil.
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	In 1914 Steiner married his collaborator [[Marie von Sivers]] in [[Dornach]].		In 1914 Steiner married his collaborator [[Marie von Sivers]] in [[Dornach]].

	The [[Anthroposophical Society]] grew rapidly and in 1913 construction began of the [[first Goetheanum]] in Dornach as a theatre and administration building for their annual meetings. Designed by Steiner, it was largely built by volunteers who had specialist knowledge or simply the will to learn something new. In the field of sculpture, [[Edith Maryon]] was instrumental. In 1919, the world's first performance of [[w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]]'s entire [[Goethe's Faust\|Faust]] took place here. In Dornach, where the thunder of cannons could be heard almost continuously, outstanding artists from sixteen partly hostile countries worked together during the war. The Goetheanum is intended as a "house of language" or a "house of the word". From here people who are really fully aware of their humanity are to work in collaboration with other spiritual institutions - communities, schools and universities - for a new taking seriously of the inner side of the human being.		The [[Anthroposophical Society]] grew rapidly and in 1913 construction began of the [[first Goetheanum]] in Dornach as a theatre and administration building for their annual meetings. Designed by Steiner, it was largely built by volunteers who had specialist knowledge or simply the will to learn something new. In the field of sculpture, [[Edith Maryon]] was instrumental. In 1919, the world's first performance of [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]]'s entire [[Goethe's Faust\|Faust]] took place here. In Dornach, where the thunder of cannons could be heard almost continuously, outstanding artists from sixteen partly hostile countries worked together during the war. The Goetheanum is intended as a "house of language" or a "house of the word". From here people who are really fully aware of their humanity are to work in collaboration with other spiritual institutions - communities, schools and universities - for a new taking seriously of the inner side of the human being.

	==== Anthroposophical architecture ====		==== Anthroposophical architecture ====

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	Steiner studied biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics at the [[w:Vienna\|Vienna]] [[w:TU Wien\|College of Technology]] ({{German\|''Technische Hochschule Wien''}}, now called [[w:TU Wien\|TU Wien]]) from 1879. The student developed a high regard for the German professor [[Karl-Julius Schröer]]. On Schröer's recommendation, he edited Goethe's scientific writings in Kürschner's Deutscher Nationalliteratur~~[11]~~ and published literary essays in newspapers. From 1882 to 1887 Steiner's family lived in [[Brunn am Gebirge]]. From 1884 to 1890 Steiner earned his living by working as a private tutor in a prominent Viennese family for a child with hydrocephalus who was considered unschoolable and who thus later studied medicine and became a doctor. He established a friendship with the poet [[Marie Eugenie delle Grazie]]. [[Marie Lang]] mediated a same with [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]], but Rudolf Steiner also cultivated more intensive contact with people such as the herbalist [[Felix Koguzki]].		Steiner studied biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics at the [[w:Vienna\|Vienna]] [[w:TU Wien\|College of Technology]] ({{German\|''Technische Hochschule Wien''}}, now called [[w:TU Wien\|TU Wien]]) from 1879. The student developed a high regard for the German professor [[Karl-Julius Schröer]]. On Schröer's recommendation, he edited Goethe's scientific writings in Kürschner's Deutscher Nationalliteratur {{GZ\|\|28\|124f}} and published literary essays in newspapers. From 1882 to 1887 Steiner's family lived in [[Brunn am Gebirge]]. From 1884 to 1890 Steiner earned his living by working as a private tutor in a prominent Viennese family for a child with hydrocephalus who was considered unschoolable and who thus later studied medicine and became a doctor. He established a friendship with the poet [[Marie Eugenie delle Grazie]]. [[Marie Lang]] mediated a same with [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]], but Rudolf Steiner also cultivated more intensive contact with people such as the herbalist [[Felix Koguzki]].

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	'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]].		'''Rudolf Steiner''' (born 25 or 27 February 1861 in [[Kraljevec]], then [[w:Austrian Empire\|Austrian Empire]], now [[Donji Kraljevec]] in [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]]; † 30 March 1925 in [[Dornach]] near [[w:Basel\|Basel]]), was an Austrian [[w:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\|Goethe]] scholar, philosopher, and [[spiritual researcher]]. He opened a new, forward-looking scientific approach to the [[spiritual world]] through the [[anthroposophy]] he systematically developed as a [[science of the spiritual]] from 1900 onwards, based on the [[observation of thinking]] according to the scientific method, which he had already presented in detail in his [[Philosophy of Freedom]] published in 1894 and in the second part of which he founded an [[ethical individualism]] based on the self-aware free [[I]] of [[man]], which must not be confused with his mere [[ego]].

	With [[eurythmy]] Steiner created a new art of movement and with the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach as the seat of an independent [[School of Spiritual Science]] and through other buildings a new, organic architectural style. To a considerable extent he gave instruction in the art of recitation and declamation. The [[Waldorf school]] made possible more natural learning, [[biodynamic agriculture]] nourished life, the idea of the [[threefold social organism]] was to make possible the principle of freedom in spiritual life, equality in legal life and fraternity in economic life. Together with [[Ita Wegman]], Steiner created [[anthroposophic medicine]]. He also gave suggestions to experts in other arts and the [[natural sciences]], mostly at their request.		With [[eurythmy]] Steiner created a new art of movement and with the [[Goetheanum]] in Dornach as the seat of an independent [[School of Spiritual Science]] and through other buildings a new, organic architectural style. To a considerable extent he gave instruction in the art of recitation and declamation. The [[Waldorf school]] made possible more natural learning, [[biodynamic agriculture]] nourished life, the idea of the [[threefold social organism]] was to make possible the principle of freedom in spiritual life, equality in legal life and fraternity in economic life. Together with [[Ita Wegman]], Steiner created [[anthroposophic medicine]]. He also gave suggestions to experts in other arts and the [[natural sciences]], mostly at their request.

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Childhood

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	[[File:Rudolf Steiner as Abiturient 1879.jpg\|thumb\|Rudolf Steiner as a high school graduate (1879).]]		[[File:Rudolf Steiner as Abiturient 1879.jpg\|thumb\|Rudolf Steiner as a high school graduate (1879).]]

	Rudolf Steiner's birthplace is [[Donji Kraljevec]], a small village in northern [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]] not far from [[w:Čakovec\|Čakovec]]~~, is~~ . The village is located on the so-called ''Mur Island'' between the [[w:Mur (river)\|Mur]] and [[w:Drava\|Drava]] rivers, which Rudolf Steiner also liked to call the "Two Rivers Land". His parental home was free-spirited, his father, '''Johann Steiner''' (1829-1910), was a railway official; to his mother '''Franziska Steiner''', née Blie (1834-1918), he always remained in a loving and soulful relationship. Both parents came from the [[w:Lower Austria\|Lower Austria]]n [[w:Waldviertel\|Waldviertel]], where they also returned after the father retired. Rudolf Steiner had two younger siblings: '''Leopoldine''' (1864-1927), who lived with her parents as a seamstress until their death, and '''Gustav''' (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help throughout his life. His father had previously worked as a forester and hunter in the service of Count Hoyos of [[w:Horn, Austria\|Horn]] (a son of Count Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein); when the latter refused to give him permission to marry in 1860, he resigned from the service and found employment as a railway telegraph operator on the southern railway. In «[[The Story of My Life]]» Steiner writes:		Rudolf Steiner's birthplace is [[Donji Kraljevec]], a small village in northern [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]] not far from [[w:Čakovec\|Čakovec]]. The village is located on the so-called ''Mur Island'' between the [[w:Mur (river)\|Mur]] and [[w:Drava\|Drava]] rivers, which Rudolf Steiner also liked to call the "Two Rivers Land". His parental home was free-spirited, his father, '''Johann Steiner''' (1829-1910), was a railway official; to his mother '''Franziska Steiner''', née Blie (1834-1918), he always remained in a loving and soulful relationship. Both parents came from the [[w:Lower Austria\|Lower Austria]]n [[w:Waldviertel\|Waldviertel]], where they also returned after the father retired. Rudolf Steiner had two younger siblings: '''Leopoldine''' (1864-1927), who lived with her parents as a seamstress until their death, and '''Gustav''' (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help throughout his life. His father had previously worked as a forester and hunter in the service of Count Hoyos of [[w:Horn, Austria\|Horn]] (a son of Count Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein); when the latter refused to give him permission to marry in 1860, he resigned from the service and found employment as a railway telegraph operator on the southern railway. In «[[The Story of My Life]]» Steiner writes:

	{{GZ\|My parents had their home in Lower Austria. My father was born in Geras, a very small town in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, my mother in Horn, a town in the same area. My father spent his childhood and youth in close connection with the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras. He always looked back on this time of his life with great affection. He liked to tell how he had served in the monastery and how he had been taught by the monks. He was later a hunter in the service of the Count of Hoyos. This family had a property in Horn. That's where my father met my mother. He then left the hunting service and joined the Austrian Southern Railway as a telegraph operator. He was first employed at a small railway station in southern Styria. Then he was transferred to Kraljevec on the Hungarian-Croatian border. During this time he married my mother. Her maiden name is Blie. She comes from an old Horner family. I was born in Kraljevec on 27 February 1861. - That's how it came about that my place of birth is far removed from the region of the Earth from which I come.\|28\|10}}		{{GZ\|My parents had their home in Lower Austria. My father was born in Geras, a very small town in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, my mother in Horn, a town in the same area. My father spent his childhood and youth in close connection with the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras. He always looked back on this time of his life with great affection. He liked to tell how he had served in the monastery and how he had been taught by the monks. He was later a hunter in the service of the Count of Hoyos. This family had a property in Horn. That's where my father met my mother. He then left the hunting service and joined the Austrian Southern Railway as a telegraph operator. He was first employed at a small railway station in southern Styria. Then he was transferred to Kraljevec on the Hungarian-Croatian border. During this time he married my mother. Her maiden name is Blie. She comes from an old Horner family. I was born in Kraljevec on 27 February 1861. - That's how it came about that my place of birth is far removed from the region of the Earth from which I come.\|28\|10}}

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Literature

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	* [[a:Friedwart Husemann\|Friedwart Husemann]]: ''Rudolf Steiners Schriften in 50 kurzen Porträts'', Vlg. am Goetheanum, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3723515969		* [[a:Friedwart Husemann\|Friedwart Husemann]]: ''Rudolf Steiners Schriften in 50 kurzen Porträts'', Vlg. am Goetheanum, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3723515969
	*[[a:Wolfgang Zumdick\|Wolfgang Zumdick]]: ''Rudolf Steiner in Wien: Die Orte seines Wirkens'', Metroverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3993006020		*[[a:Wolfgang Zumdick\|Wolfgang Zumdick]]: ''Rudolf Steiner in Wien: Die Orte seines Wirkens'', Metroverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3993006020
			* Wolfgang G. Vögele (Hrsg.): ''Sie Mensch von einem Menschen! Rudolf Steiner in Anekdoten.'' Futurum 2012, ISBN 978-3856362379
	* Ernst-Christian Demisch (Hrsg.), Christa Greshake-Ebding (Hrsg.), [[a:Johannes Kiersch\|Johannes Kiersch]] (Hrsg.): ''Steiner neu lesen: Perspektiven für den Umgang mit Grundlagentexten der Waldorfpädagogik'' (Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge der Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Band 12), Peter Lang GmbH 2014, ISBN 978-3631649695, eBook {{ASIN\|B076FCC8PN}}		* Ernst-Christian Demisch (Hrsg.), Christa Greshake-Ebding (Hrsg.), [[a:Johannes Kiersch\|Johannes Kiersch]] (Hrsg.): ''Steiner neu lesen: Perspektiven für den Umgang mit Grundlagentexten der Waldorfpädagogik'' (Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge der Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Band 12), Peter Lang GmbH 2014, ISBN 978-3631649695, eBook {{ASIN\|B076FCC8PN}}
	* [[a:Michael Heinen-Anders\|Michael Heinen-Anders]]: Aus anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen, BOD, Norderstedt 2010, S. 30 - 35; 48 - 49; 57 - 58.		* [[a:Michael Heinen-Anders\|Michael Heinen-Anders]]: Aus anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen, BOD, Norderstedt 2010, S. 30 - 35; 48 - 49; 57 - 58.

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Spiritual Home and Future

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	== Spiritual Home and Future ==		== Spiritual Home and Future ==

	As his contacts with artists of the very highest rank show (for example, Steiner gave systematic world-view guidance to [[w:Wassily Kandinsky\|Wassily Kandinsky]], [[w:Christian Morgenstern\|Christian Morgenstern]] and [[w:Joseph Beuys\|Joseph Beuys]]), the founder of anthroposophy is at home in the whole of European culture. Here [[Thomas Aquinas]], through the emancipation of theological science from philosophy, is Steiner's most important forerunner. Rudolf Steiner, however, also developed his own literary style in his "[[Words of Truth]]* and "[[Mystery Dramas]]". After his death, [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]] compared this with Goethe's realistic style in "[[w:Dichtung und Wahrheit\|Dichtung und Wahrheit]]".		As his contacts with artists of the very highest rank show (for example, Steiner gave systematic world-view guidance to [[w:Wassily Kandinsky\|Wassily Kandinsky]], [[w:Christian Morgenstern\|Christian Morgenstern]] and [[w:Joseph Beuys\|Joseph Beuys]]), the founder of anthroposophy is at home in the whole of European culture. Here [[w:Thomas Aquinas\|Thomas Aquinas]], through the emancipation of theological science from philosophy, is Steiner's most important forerunner. Rudolf Steiner, however, also developed his own literary style in his "[[Words of Truth]]" and "[[Mystery Dramas]]". After his death, [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]] compared this with Goethe's realistic style in "[[w:Dichtung und Wahrheit\|Dichtung und Wahrheit]]".

	Rudolf Steiner's work was discussed even during his lifetime. Controversial issues were many statements of anthroposophy, which was not accepted by representatives of university science, and the religious approaches, which were condemned by the official churches. After [[w:World War II\|World War II]], especially in [[w:Germany\|Germany]], Steiner's statements on the [[race]] question and [[Judaism]] were criticised. However, the works he wrote - as with many other philosophers - can partly only be understood from the context of the time.		Rudolf Steiner's work was discussed even during his lifetime. Controversial issues were many statements of anthroposophy, which was not accepted by representatives of university science, and the religious approaches, which were condemned by the official churches. After [[w:World War II\|World War II]], especially in [[w:Germany\|Germany]], Steiner's statements on the [[race]] question and [[Judaism]] were criticised. However, the works he wrote - as with many other philosophers - can partly only be understood from the context of the time.

	== Works ==		== Works ==

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	{{GZ\|What I have given to these personalities has nothing to do with the anthroposophical movement. I gave it to them as a private person, and I gave it in such a way that I emphasised with necessary firmness that the anthroposophical movement must have nothing to do with this movement for religious renewal; but that above all I am not the founder of this movement for religious renewal; that I count on this being made perfectly clear to the world, and that I have given the necessary advice to individual personalities who wanted to found this movement for religious renewal of their own accord, advice which was, however, suitable for the practice of a valid and spiritually vigorous cultus, spiritually filled with being, to be celebrated in a lawful manner with the forces from the spiritual world. I myself, in giving this advice, never performed any act of worship, but only showed those who wished to grow into this act of worship, step by step, how such an act of worship should be performed. That was necessary. And today it is also necessary that this should be correctly understood within the Anthroposophical Society.\|219\|169f}}		{{GZ\|What I have given to these personalities has nothing to do with the anthroposophical movement. I gave it to them as a private person, and I gave it in such a way that I emphasised with necessary firmness that the anthroposophical movement must have nothing to do with this movement for religious renewal; but that above all I am not the founder of this movement for religious renewal; that I count on this being made perfectly clear to the world, and that I have given the necessary advice to individual personalities who wanted to found this movement for religious renewal of their own accord, advice which was, however, suitable for the practice of a valid and spiritually vigorous cultus, spiritually filled with being, to be celebrated in a lawful manner with the forces from the spiritual world. I myself, in giving this advice, never performed any act of worship, but only showed those who wished to grow into this act of worship, step by step, how such an act of worship should be performed. That was necessary. And today it is also necessary that this should be correctly understood within the Anthroposophical Society.\|219\|169f}}

			== Spiritual Home and Future ==

			As his contacts with artists of the very highest rank show (for example, Steiner gave systematic world-view guidance to [[w:Wassily Kandinsky\|Wassily Kandinsky]], [[w:Christian Morgenstern\|Christian Morgenstern]] and [[w:Joseph Beuys\|Joseph Beuys]]), the founder of anthroposophy is at home in the whole of European culture. Here [[Thomas Aquinas]], through the emancipation of theological science from philosophy, is Steiner's most important forerunner. Rudolf Steiner, however, also developed his own literary style in his "[[Words of Truth]]* and "[[Mystery Dramas]]". After his death, [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]] compared this with Goethe's realistic style in "[[w:Dichtung und Wahrheit\|Dichtung und Wahrheit]]".

			Rudolf Steiner's work was discussed even during his lifetime. Controversial issues were many statements of anthroposophy, which was not accepted by representatives of university science, and the religious approaches, which were condemned by the official churches. After [[w:World War II\|World War II]], especially in [[w:Germany\|Germany]], Steiner's statements on the [[race]] question and [[Judaism]] were criticised. However, the works he wrote - as with many other philosophers - can partly only be understood from the context of the time.

			== Works ==
			{{Main\|Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works}}

			In addition to 24 books, Rudolf Steiner published a large number of writings and articles and gave more than 5600 lectures in Germany and abroad. A large number of the lectures have been preserved in transcripts by professional stenographers and lecture listeners. At first they were often published privately and in journals. Later, various publishing houses (including Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Rudolf-Steiner Verlag) began to edit and publish the lectures, books in the narrower sense and the accompanying wall charts.

			* [[GA 1\|Einleitungen zu Goethes Naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften]], 1884-1897
			* [[GA 2\|Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Schiller]], 1886
			* [[GA 3\|Wahrheit und Wissenschaft]], 1892
			* [[GA 4\|Die Philosophie der Freiheit]], 1894
			* [[GA 5\|Friedrich Nietsche, ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit]], 1895
			* [[GA 6\|Goethes Weltanschauung]], 1897
			* [[GA 7\|Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung]], 1901
			* [[GA 18\|Die Rätsel der Philosophie]], 1900
			* [[GA 8\|Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache]], 1902
			* [[GA 9\|Theosophie]], 1904
			* [[GA 10\|Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?]], 1904
			* [[GA 11\|Aus der Akasha-Chronik]], 1904-1908, als Buch 1939
			* [[GA 12\|Die Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis]], 1905-1908
			* [[GA 13\|Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss]], 1909
			* [[GA 14\|Vier Mysteriendramen]], 1910-1913
			* [[GA 15\|Die geistige Führung des Menschen und der Menschheit]], 1911
			* [[GA 16\|Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen. In acht Meditationen]], 1912
			* [[GA 17\|Die Schwelle der geistigen Welt. Aphoristische Ausführungen]], 1913
			* [[GA 20\|Vom Menschenrätsel]], 1916
			* [[GA 21\|Von Seelenrätseln]], 1917
			* [[GA 22\|Goethes Geistesart in ihrer Offenbarung durch seinen «Faust» und durch das Märchen von der Schlange und der Lilie]], 1918
			* [[GA 23\|Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage]], 1919
			* [[GA 24\|Aufsätze über die Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus]], 1919
			* [[GA 25\|Drei Schritte der Anthroposophie: Philosophie, Kosmologie, Religion]], 1922
			* [[GA 26\|Anthroposophische Leitsätze]], 1924-1925
			* [[GA 27\|Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen]], 1925
			* [[GA 28\|Mein Lebensgang]], 1924

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==

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	[[File:Rudolf Steiner as Abiturient 1879.jpg\|thumb\|Rudolf Steiner as a high school graduate (1879).]]		[[File:Rudolf Steiner as Abiturient 1879.jpg\|thumb\|Rudolf Steiner as a high school graduate (1879).]]

	Rudolf Steiner's birthplace is [[Donji Kraljevec]], a small village in northern [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]] not far from [[w:Čakovec\|Čakovec]]~~, is~~ . The village is located on the so-called ''Mur Island'' between the [[w:Mur (river)\|Mur]] and [[w:Drava\|Drava]] rivers, which Rudolf Steiner also liked to call the "Two Rivers Land". His parental home was free-spirited, his father, '''Johann Steiner''' (1829-1910), was a railway official; to his mother '''Franziska Steiner''', née Blie (1834-1918), he always remained in a loving and soulful relationship. Both parents came from the [[w:Lower Austria\|Lower Austria]]n [[w:Waldviertel\|Waldviertel]], where they also returned after the father retired. Rudolf Steiner had two younger siblings: '''Leopoldine''' (1864-1927), who lived with her parents as a seamstress until their death, and '''Gustav''' (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help throughout his life. His father had previously worked as a forester and hunter in the service of Count Hoyos of [[w:Horn, Austria\|Horn]] (a son of Count Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein); when the latter refused to give him permission to marry in 1860, he resigned from the service and found employment as a railway telegraph operator on the southern railway. In «[[The Story of My Life]]» Steiner writes:		Rudolf Steiner's birthplace is [[Donji Kraljevec]], a small village in northern [[w:Croatia\|Croatia]] not far from [[w:Čakovec\|Čakovec]]. The village is located on the so-called ''Mur Island'' between the [[w:Mur (river)\|Mur]] and [[w:Drava\|Drava]] rivers, which Rudolf Steiner also liked to call the "Two Rivers Land". His parental home was free-spirited, his father, '''Johann Steiner''' (1829-1910), was a railway official; to his mother '''Franziska Steiner''', née Blie (1834-1918), he always remained in a loving and soulful relationship. Both parents came from the [[w:Lower Austria\|Lower Austria]]n [[w:Waldviertel\|Waldviertel]], where they also returned after the father retired. Rudolf Steiner had two younger siblings: '''Leopoldine''' (1864-1927), who lived with her parents as a seamstress until their death, and '''Gustav''' (1866-1941), who was born deaf and was dependent on outside help throughout his life. His father had previously worked as a forester and hunter in the service of Count Hoyos of [[w:Horn, Austria\|Horn]] (a son of Count Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein); when the latter refused to give him permission to marry in 1860, he resigned from the service and found employment as a railway telegraph operator on the southern railway. In «[[The Story of My Life]]» Steiner writes:

	{{GZ\|My parents had their home in Lower Austria. My father was born in Geras, a very small town in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, my mother in Horn, a town in the same area. My father spent his childhood and youth in close connection with the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras. He always looked back on this time of his life with great affection. He liked to tell how he had served in the monastery and how he had been taught by the monks. He was later a hunter in the service of the Count of Hoyos. This family had a property in Horn. That's where my father met my mother. He then left the hunting service and joined the Austrian Southern Railway as a telegraph operator. He was first employed at a small railway station in southern Styria. Then he was transferred to Kraljevec on the Hungarian-Croatian border. During this time he married my mother. Her maiden name is Blie. She comes from an old Horner family. I was born in Kraljevec on 27 February 1861. - That's how it came about that my place of birth is far removed from the region of the Earth from which I come.\|28\|10}}		{{GZ\|My parents had their home in Lower Austria. My father was born in Geras, a very small town in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel, my mother in Horn, a town in the same area. My father spent his childhood and youth in close connection with the Premonstratensian monastery in Geras. He always looked back on this time of his life with great affection. He liked to tell how he had served in the monastery and how he had been taught by the monks. He was later a hunter in the service of the Count of Hoyos. This family had a property in Horn. That's where my father met my mother. He then left the hunting service and joined the Austrian Southern Railway as a telegraph operator. He was first employed at a small railway station in southern Styria. Then he was transferred to Kraljevec on the Hungarian-Croatian border. During this time he married my mother. Her maiden name is Blie. She comes from an old Horner family. I was born in Kraljevec on 27 February 1861. - That's how it came about that my place of birth is far removed from the region of the Earth from which I come.\|28\|10}}

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	* [[a:Friedwart Husemann\|Friedwart Husemann]]: ''Rudolf Steiners Schriften in 50 kurzen Porträts'', Vlg. am Goetheanum, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3723515969		* [[a:Friedwart Husemann\|Friedwart Husemann]]: ''Rudolf Steiners Schriften in 50 kurzen Porträts'', Vlg. am Goetheanum, Dornach 2018, ISBN 978-3723515969
	*[[a:Wolfgang Zumdick\|Wolfgang Zumdick]]: ''Rudolf Steiner in Wien: Die Orte seines Wirkens'', Metroverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3993006020		*[[a:Wolfgang Zumdick\|Wolfgang Zumdick]]: ''Rudolf Steiner in Wien: Die Orte seines Wirkens'', Metroverlag 2010, ISBN 978-3993006020
			* Wolfgang G. Vögele (Hrsg.): ''Sie Mensch von einem Menschen! Rudolf Steiner in Anekdoten.'' Futurum 2012, ISBN 978-3856362379
	* Ernst-Christian Demisch (Hrsg.), Christa Greshake-Ebding (Hrsg.), [[a:Johannes Kiersch\|Johannes Kiersch]] (Hrsg.): ''Steiner neu lesen: Perspektiven für den Umgang mit Grundlagentexten der Waldorfpädagogik'' (Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge der Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Band 12), Peter Lang GmbH 2014, ISBN 978-3631649695, eBook {{ASIN\|B076FCC8PN}}		* Ernst-Christian Demisch (Hrsg.), Christa Greshake-Ebding (Hrsg.), [[a:Johannes Kiersch\|Johannes Kiersch]] (Hrsg.): ''Steiner neu lesen: Perspektiven für den Umgang mit Grundlagentexten der Waldorfpädagogik'' (Kulturwissenschaftliche Beiträge der Alanus Hochschule für Kunst und Gesellschaft, Band 12), Peter Lang GmbH 2014, ISBN 978-3631649695, eBook {{ASIN\|B076FCC8PN}}
	* [[a:Michael Heinen-Anders\|Michael Heinen-Anders]]: Aus anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen, BOD, Norderstedt 2010, S. 30 - 35; 48 - 49; 57 - 58.		* [[a:Michael Heinen-Anders\|Michael Heinen-Anders]]: Aus anthroposophischen Zusammenhängen, BOD, Norderstedt 2010, S. 30 - 35; 48 - 49; 57 - 58.

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	{{GZ\|What I have given to these personalities has nothing to do with the anthroposophical movement. I gave it to them as a private person, and I gave it in such a way that I emphasised with necessary firmness that the anthroposophical movement must have nothing to do with this movement for religious renewal; but that above all I am not the founder of this movement for religious renewal; that I count on this being made perfectly clear to the world, and that I have given the necessary advice to individual personalities who wanted to found this movement for religious renewal of their own accord, advice which was, however, suitable for the practice of a valid and spiritually vigorous cultus, spiritually filled with being, to be celebrated in a lawful manner with the forces from the spiritual world. I myself, in giving this advice, never performed any act of worship, but only showed those who wished to grow into this act of worship, step by step, how such an act of worship should be performed. That was necessary. And today it is also necessary that this should be correctly understood within the Anthroposophical Society.\|219\|169f}}		{{GZ\|What I have given to these personalities has nothing to do with the anthroposophical movement. I gave it to them as a private person, and I gave it in such a way that I emphasised with necessary firmness that the anthroposophical movement must have nothing to do with this movement for religious renewal; but that above all I am not the founder of this movement for religious renewal; that I count on this being made perfectly clear to the world, and that I have given the necessary advice to individual personalities who wanted to found this movement for religious renewal of their own accord, advice which was, however, suitable for the practice of a valid and spiritually vigorous cultus, spiritually filled with being, to be celebrated in a lawful manner with the forces from the spiritual world. I myself, in giving this advice, never performed any act of worship, but only showed those who wished to grow into this act of worship, step by step, how such an act of worship should be performed. That was necessary. And today it is also necessary that this should be correctly understood within the Anthroposophical Society.\|219\|169f}}

			== Spiritual Home and Future ==

			As his contacts with artists of the very highest rank show (for example, Steiner gave systematic world-view guidance to [[w:Wassily Kandinsky\|Wassily Kandinsky]], [[w:Christian Morgenstern\|Christian Morgenstern]] and [[w:Joseph Beuys\|Joseph Beuys]]), the founder of anthroposophy is at home in the whole of European culture. Here [[Thomas Aquinas]], through the emancipation of theological science from philosophy, is Steiner's most important forerunner. Rudolf Steiner, however, also developed his own literary style in his "[[Words of Truth]]* and "[[Mystery Dramas]]". After his death, [[w:Rosa Mayreder\|Rosa Mayreder]] compared this with Goethe's realistic style in "[[w:Dichtung und Wahrheit\|Dichtung und Wahrheit]]".

			Rudolf Steiner's work was discussed even during his lifetime. Controversial issues were many statements of anthroposophy, which was not accepted by representatives of university science, and the religious approaches, which were condemned by the official churches. After [[w:World War II\|World War II]], especially in [[w:Germany\|Germany]], Steiner's statements on the [[race]] question and [[Judaism]] were criticised. However, the works he wrote - as with many other philosophers - can partly only be understood from the context of the time.

			== Works ==
			{{Main\|Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works}}

			In addition to 24 books, Rudolf Steiner published a large number of writings and articles and gave more than 5600 lectures in Germany and abroad. A large number of the lectures have been preserved in transcripts by professional stenographers and lecture listeners. At first they were often published privately and in journals. Later, various publishing houses (including Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Rudolf-Steiner Verlag) began to edit and publish the lectures, books in the narrower sense and the accompanying wall charts.

			* [[GA 1\|Einleitungen zu Goethes Naturwissenschaftlichen Schriften]], 1884-1897
			* [[GA 2\|Grundlinien einer Erkenntnistheorie der Goetheschen Weltanschauung, mit besonderer Rücksicht auf Schiller]], 1886
			* [[GA 3\|Wahrheit und Wissenschaft]], 1892
			* [[GA 4\|Die Philosophie der Freiheit]], 1894
			* [[GA 5\|Friedrich Nietsche, ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit]], 1895
			* [[GA 6\|Goethes Weltanschauung]], 1897
			* [[GA 7\|Die Mystik im Aufgange des neuzeitlichen Geisteslebens und ihr Verhältnis zur modernen Weltanschauung]], 1901
			* [[GA 18\|Die Rätsel der Philosophie]], 1900
			* [[GA 8\|Das Christentum als mystische Tatsache]], 1902
			* [[GA 9\|Theosophie]], 1904
			* [[GA 10\|Wie erlangt man Erkenntnisse der höheren Welten?]], 1904
			* [[GA 11\|Aus der Akasha-Chronik]], 1904-1908, als Buch 1939
			* [[GA 12\|Die Stufen der höheren Erkenntnis]], 1905-1908
			* [[GA 13\|Die Geheimwissenschaft im Umriss]], 1909
			* [[GA 14\|Vier Mysteriendramen]], 1910-1913
			* [[GA 15\|Die geistige Führung des Menschen und der Menschheit]], 1911
			* [[GA 16\|Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen. In acht Meditationen]], 1912
			* [[GA 17\|Die Schwelle der geistigen Welt. Aphoristische Ausführungen]], 1913
			* [[GA 20\|Vom Menschenrätsel]], 1916
			* [[GA 21\|Von Seelenrätseln]], 1917
			* [[GA 22\|Goethes Geistesart in ihrer Offenbarung durch seinen «Faust» und durch das Märchen von der Schlange und der Lilie]], 1918
			* [[GA 23\|Die Kernpunkte der sozialen Frage]], 1919
			* [[GA 24\|Aufsätze über die Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus]], 1919
			* [[GA 25\|Drei Schritte der Anthroposophie: Philosophie, Kosmologie, Religion]], 1922
			* [[GA 26\|Anthroposophische Leitsätze]], 1924-1925
			* [[GA 27\|Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen]], 1925
			* [[GA 28\|Mein Lebensgang]], 1924

	== Literature ==		== Literature ==