“Steiner's 'biodynamic agriculture' based on 'restoring the quasi-mystical relationship between earth and the cosmos' was widely accepted in the Third Reich (28).”
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Rudolf Steiner
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant and speaker with the dead. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual…
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culture · Austrian esotericist (1861–1925) · occultist · writer · poet · musicologist · choreographer · literary critic · autobiographer · philosopher · teacher · playwright · also Rudolf Steiner, Steiner
Born 25 February 1861 · Died 30 March 1925 · Q78484
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2026· 2 entries
Public attention spiked: 5,232 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.8× the usual 907, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: note statement about diets needing clarification
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2011· 1 entry
At the Kunstmuseum in Stuttgart, Germany,
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1925· 1 entry
Died 1925-03-30.
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1924· 3 entries
Anthroposophy got labeled "new religious movement" and "occultist movement"
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A group of farmers concerned about the future of agriculture requested Steiner's help
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At an Anthroposophy Summer School organised by Eleanor Merry
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1923· 1 entry
As a further development of his earlier Esoteric School
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1922· 2 entries
A lecture Steiner was giving in Munich was disrupted when stink bombs were let off and the lights switched out, while people rushed the stage apparently attempting to attack Steiner, who exited safely through a back door
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Steiner presented these ideas at a conference called for this purpose in Oxford by Professor Millicent Mackenzie
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1921· 2 entries
Adolf Hitler attacked Steiner on many fronts, including accusations that he was a tool of the Jews
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Pharmacists and physicians gathered under Steiner's guidance to create a pharmaceutical company called Weleda which now distributes naturopathic medical and beauty products worldwide
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1919· 2 entries
A political theorist of this movement, Dietrich Eckart, attacked Steiner and suggested that he was a Jew
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Emil Molt invited him to lecture to his workers at the Waldorf-Astoria cigarette factory in Stuttgart
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1913· 1 entry
Construction began on the first Goetheanum building, in Dornach, Switzerland
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1910· 1 entry
Described aspects of karma relating to health, natural phenomena and free will, taking the position that a person is not bound by his or her karma, but can transcend this through actively taking hold of one's own natu
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1909· 2 entries
Won Subba Row Medal (1909).
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“Probation, The Guardian of the Threshold and The Soul”
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1904· 2 entries
Eliza, the wife of Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, became one of his favourite scholars
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Of the first of several systematic presentations, his Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos
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1903· 1 entry
Steiner transformed the ponderous gondola airships of his Atlantis story into airplanes with elevators and rudders in 1904
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1902· 2 entries
To begin speaking openly about his spiritual observations
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Without ever formally joining the society
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1899· 3 entries
Steiner published an article, "Goethe's Secret Revelation", discussing the esoteric nature of Goethe's fairy tale The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily
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Steiner married Anna Eunicke; the couple separated several years later
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Experienced what he described as a life-transforming inner encounter with the being of Christ
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1897· 1 entry
Steiner left the Weimar archives and moved to Berlin
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1896· 1 entry
Steiner declined an offer from Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche to help organize the Nietzsche archive in Naumburg
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1894· 1 entry
Published Die Philosophie der Freiheit (The Philosophy of Freedom or The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity, the latter being Steiner's preferred English title), an exploration of epistemology and ethics that suggested
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1892· 1 entry
As Truth and Knowledge, Steiner suggests that there is an inconsistency between Kant's philosophy, which posits that all knowledge is a representation of an essential verity inaccessible to human consciousness, and moder
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1891· 1 entry
Steiner received a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Rostock for his dissertation discussing Fichte's concept of the ego, submitted to Heinrich von Stein, whose Seven Books of Platonism Steiner esteemed
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1888· 1 entry
As a result of his work for the Kürschner edition of Goethe's works, Steiner was invited to work as an editor at the Goethe archives in Weimar
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1886· 1 entry
“s philosophy: The Theory of Knowledge Implicit in Goethe”
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1882· 1 entry
One of Steiner's teachers, Karl Julius Schröer, referred Steiner to Joseph Kürschner, chief editor of a new edition of Goethe's works
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1879· 1 entry
The family moved to Inzersdorf to enable Steiner to attend the Vienna Institute of Technology, where he enrolled in courses in mathematics, physics, chemistry, botany, zoology, and mineralogy and audited courses in liter
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1869· 1 entry
When Steiner was eight years old, the family moved to the village of Neudörfl and in October 1872 Steiner proceeded from the village school there to the realschule in Wiener Neustadt
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1861· 1 entry
Born 1861-02-25.
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