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Rudolf Steiner

Also known as Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner

Austrian social reformer, occultist and esotericist (1861–1925)

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Rudolf Steiner was an Austrian thinker and reformer (1861–1925) who developed ideas blending spiritual philosophy with practical approaches to education, agriculture, and social organization. His influence matters because his teachings inspired educational methods, farming practices, and spiritual movements that continue to shape alternative approaches to learning and living today.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 27 February 1861
Died: 30 March 1925
Works: 2259

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Austria
Active from: 1888-05-10
Active to: 1971-12-28

austrianeuropeanfilm composer

Discography

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,424
Total plays: 22,391

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,321x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
[14] Analysis of total phenols and other oxidation substrates and antioxidants by means of folin-ciocalteu reagent
· 1999 · cited 14,049x
2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure
· 2021 · cited 12,118x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,995x

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Quotes

“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”
“Live through deeds of love, and let others live understanding their unique intentions: this is the fundamental principle of free human beings.”
“The fundamental maxim of free men is to live in love towards our actions, and to let live in the understanding of the other person's will.”
“Ethical individualism... is spiritualized theory of evolution carried over into moral life.”
“Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves. The task of understanding is not to replicate in conceptual form something that already exists, but rather to create a wholly new realm, that together with the world given to our senses constitutes the fullness of reality.”
“Each individual is a species unto him/herself.”

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Works in European collections

15 objects attributed to Rudolf Steiner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Transformer house

Goetheanum

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Encyclopedic overview

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner ( German: [ˈʃtaɪnɐ]; 27 or 25 February 1861 – 30 March 1925) was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. 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 movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by (Christian) Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.

In the first, more philosophically oriented phase of this movement, Steiner attempted to find a synthesis between science and spirituality by developing what he termed "spiritual science", which he sought to apply the clarity of thinking characteristic of Western philosophy to spiritual questions, differentiating this approach from what he considered to be vaguer approaches to mysticism. In a second phase, beginning around 1907, he began working collaboratively in a variety of artistic media, including drama, dance 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 on various ostensibly applied projects, including Waldorf education, biodynamic agriculture, and anthroposophical medicine.

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