154 - Spiritual influences from the world of the dead - Steiner R.

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Rudolf Steiner, founder of anthroposophy, was born in Austria in 1861 and came to prominence, while still a student, by editing the publication of Goethe's scientific writings. From 1890 to 1897 he collaborated on the Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar. From 1902 he had a more intense activity as a writer and lecturer, first within the Theosophical Society and then within the Anthroposophical Society, founded in 1913. In addition to around thirty written works of a philosophical and anthroposophical nature, there remain the shorthand texts of over 6000 conferences on the most diverse branches of knowledge. The impulses he gave in art, science, medicine, pedagogy and agriculture have led to movements that are increasingly widespread in the world today. He died in 1925 in Dornach (Switzerland), where he had built the first Goetheanum in wood, a center for scientific and artistic activities based on anthroposophy, destroyed by fire in 1922 and rebuilt in concrete after his death.