Rudolf Steiner
Philosopher, Author
1861 – 1925
Who was Rudolf Steiner?
Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition as a literary critic and cultural philosopher. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he founded a spiritual movement, anthroposophy, as an esoteric philosophy with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy.
In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and mysticism; his philosophical work of these years, which he termed spiritual science, sought to provide a connection between the cognitive path of Western philosophy and the inner and spiritual needs of the human being. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, the movement arts and architecture, culminating in the building of the Goetheanum, a cultural centre to house all the arts. In the third phase of his work, beginning after World War I, Steiner worked to establish various practical endeavors, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.
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- Born
- Feb 27, 1861
Donji Kraljevec - Spouses
- Marie Steiner-von Sivers
(1914/12/24 - )
- Marie Steiner-von Sivers
- Nationality
- Austria
- Profession
- Education
- University of Rostock
- Vienna University of Technology
- Died
- Mar 30, 1925
Dornach
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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