 The
Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner
From the Turn of the Century to his Death
a
biography by Guenther Wachsmuth
Out of print. Reprint date not known.
Owing to the untimeliness of his death
in March of 1925, Rudolf Steiner’s autobiography was never
completed. He had narrated the significant events, influences and
relationships from the time of his birth in 1861 to the early years
of his public years as a teacher and accomplished spiritual
initiate, and his involvement with the Theosophical movement. The
final year which he lived long enough to describe was 1907. The
remaining 18 years of his life, which from an anthroposophical point
of view, were the most productive and fruitful, remained with him.
It is extremely fortunate, therefore,
that someone close to Steiner during some of these final years was able
to research and compile the personal and historical information
which can help fill out the missing years of
his life.
No biography can ever truly convey the
essence of the first person viewpoint that an autobiography can, and
sadly we must forego the wish to hear how Steiner himself would have
described his experiences during the formative and adolescent years
of the development of the anthroposophical movement. Even so,
much can be ascertained from historical records and the accounts of
those who knew Steiner personally over these last decades of his
life, and we are indebted to Guenther Wachsmuth for the painstaking
task of preparing from records, personal contacts and his own close
association, the narrative of these
missing years.
Garber Communications
594pp; hardback
ISBN: 0 89345 036 7
See also:
Autobiography - Chapters in the Course of My Life: 1861-1907
Dr. Guenther Wachsmuth joined
anthroposophy in 1919 and in 1922, at the age of 29, was appointed
to head the Natural Science Section at the
Goetheanum. He led this Section through forty years of its
development and became one of the leading investigators in the field
of life processes and rhythms in nature. At the age of thirty he
published his first written work: The Etheric Formative Forces
in the Cosmos, Earth and Man, which was soon followed by a
second volume: The Etheric World in Science, Art and Religion.
In later years he added to these: Earth and Man
(1945), The Evolution of the Earth (1950), The
Course of Man’s Development (1953), and Cosmic Aspects
of Birth and Death (1956). His comprehensive biography was
first published in 1941 and expanded on a decade later.
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