Hermann Beckh

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Andreas Bracher

Andreas Bracher was born in Stuttgart in 1959. He studied history and philosophy in Tübingen, Munich and Hamburg. He lives and works as a freelance writer in Boston.

Göran Grip / Lena-Marie Broman

Lena-Marie Broman (born 1958 in Uppsala, Sweden) is currently working on her theological dissertation and lives as a freelance writer in Sweden.
Göran Grip (born 1945 in Sweden) trained as an anesthesiologist. After many years in the profession (1971-1995), he devoted himself increasingly to the study of near-death experiences and questions of life after death and reincarnation. Grip lives as a freelance publicist and lecturer in Uppsala and Greece.

Mabel Collins

The daughter of a mathematician and writer, Mabel Collins was born on the Channel Island of Guernsey in 1851.
She wrote novels with occult themes such as Flita – True Story of a Black Magician and The Lotus Queen. Temporary collaborator of H.P. Blavatsky. From 1909 acquaintance with the spiritual science of R. Steiner. 1913 personal meeting with him in London. She worked together with D. N. Dunlop in the theosophical lodge Light on The Path.
Mabel Collins died in Gloucester on March 31, 1927.

Doré Deverell

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Daniel Nicol Dunlop

Daniel Nicol Dunlop was born on December 28, 1868 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. After the early death of his mother, he spent his childhood with his grandfather on the Isle of Arran, whose many standing stones are reminiscent of megalithic culture.
In Dublin, the 18-year-old met his partner Eleanor Fitzpatrick, the painter-poet George William Russell (AE) and W. B. Yeats. At “Ely Place”, a special kind of theosophical working and living community develops. D. N. Dunlop publishes the Irish Theosophist with Russell.
After a two-year stay in America, which opened up D. N. Dunlop’s actual external field of life in the electricity industry, he worked mainly in London until his death in 1935.
In 1911 he founded the British Electrical and Allied Manufacturers Association (BRAMA), an association of manufacturers and technicians, and in 1924 the first World Power Conference, now the World Energy Council (www.worldenergy.org), which was intended as a precursor to a permanent world economic conference.
Parallel to his far-sighted professional activities, Dunlop worked tirelessly for the theosophical and then the anthroposophical cause. After his meeting with Rudolf Steiner in 1922, he organized the summer schools in Penmaenmawr and Torquay, and in 1928 the only anthroposophical world conference to date (in London). He formed deep friendships with E. C. Merry, W. J. Stein, Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz, George Adams and Ita Wegman. In 1930 he became General Secretary of the Anthroposophical Society of Great Britain and was expelled from the General Anthroposophical Society along with many others in 1935. He died in London on May 30, 1935.
Dunlop was a brilliant organizer. He gave many lectures in his early years and wrote numerous articles and several books. After his encounter with Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science, he worked more and more behind the scenes. He wanted to support others and guide them to the best place for their work. Thus he was active as a practical occultist who knew himself to be deeply connected with the great mystery currents of humanity and who was already acting at the beginning of the century with a view to the end of the century.
D. N. Dunlop can be seen as the inspirer of a world economy of the 21st century as well as of all forms of spiritual communities that want to build on true individualism.

Konstantin Gamsachurdia

Konstantin Gamsakhurdia was born in Tbilisi in 1961 as the eldest son of Georgian President Swiad Gamsakhurdia. He is an Iranologist and historian and lives near Basel.

Norbert Glas

Norbert Glas was born in Vienna in 1897. The First World War interrupted his medical studies and took him to Russia and into Albanian captivity. After the war, he completed his studies and was introduced to anthroposophy by Eugen Kolisko. He took part in R. Steiner’s second medical course in Dornach and became the youngest member of the internal circle of doctors.
Glas wrote numerous works, mainly in the fields of medicine and karmic biography.
He died in Gloucester on March 31, 1986.

Karl Heyer

Karl Heyer was born in Hanau (Hesse) in 1888, descended from emigrant Huguenots on his mother’s side. In 1907, he studied law in Geneva. In 1911, he heard R. Steiner’s first lecture and began to study history.Karl Heyer wrote the nine-volume work Beiträge zur Geschichte des Abendlandes, which he completed with the book on Kaspar Hauser.He died on July 24, 1964 in Freiburg i. Breisgau.

Barbro Karlén

Barbro Karlén was born in Gothenburg in 1954. Her first book was published in 1966: Man on Earth. Karlén became a child prodigy overnight. She went on to write nine more books in quick succession.
After an early marriage, she became a policewoman on horseback and a dressage rider who still competes internationally today.
“And the wolves howled …” is the first book after a break of over twenty years.
Barbro Karlén now lives in California.

Eugen Kolisko

Eugen Kolisko was born in Vienna in 1893. He became friends with Walter Johannes Stein at the Schottengymnasium and heard R. Steiner’s first lecture in Vienna in 1914. Kolisko studied medicine and worked as a school doctor and chemistry teacher at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart. Together with his wife Lili Kolisko, he wrote Agriculture of the Future. He moved to England in 1936.
Eugen Kolisko died in London on November 29, 1939.

Charles Kovacs

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Fritz Lemmermayer

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Ekkehard Meffert

Ekkehard Meffert was born in Berlin in 1940. After attending the Waldorf School, he studied geology, geography, philosophy (with a thesis on Nikolaus von Kues). Pedagogy, politics and history.
Meffert qualified as a professor at the Ruhr University of Applied Sciences in 1972, taught as a professor of geography in Bonn from 1973 and later moved to Cologne.
Meffert is the author of monographs on Nikolaus von Kues and Mathilde Scholl, among others. He is head of the anthroposophical Mathilde Scholl branch in Bonn.

Eleanor C. Merry

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Thomas Meyer

Thomas Meyer was born in Basel in 1950. After completing a humanistic grammar school, he studied philosophy, German and English. Later trained as a Waldorf teacher and worked as a teacher.
From 1985 freelance journalist and editor of the estate of W.J. Stein.
Collaboration with the Troxler Institute in Basel. 1990 Foundation of the Perseus publishing house.

Helmuth von Moltke

Helmuth von Moltke was born in Mecklenburg in 1848. He served as adjutant to his famous uncle and became Chief of Staff of the German army in 1906. Through his wife Eliza von Moltke (1859-1932), he became acquainted with the writings and person of Rudolf Steiner. After the tragic events in the Marne and the Kaiser’s decision to put him out of action, he worked to improve the precarious food situation in Germany and turned increasingly to anthroposophical studies and meditation.
Moltke died in Berlin on June 18, 1916.
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Laurence Oliphant

Laurence Oliphant gehört zu den großen, heute vergessenen Gestalten des 19. Jahrhunderts, ja der neueren Kulturgeschichte überhaupt. Er wurde am 3. August 1829 in Kapstadt geboren und starb am 23. Dezember 1888 in Twickenham bei London. Oliphant verbrachte einen Teil seiner Jugend in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), wo er Sekretär seines Vaters wurde, der in Colombo als Kronanwalt wirkte. Er bereiste Nepal, Russland, China, Japan, Nord- und Südamerika, zumeist in diplomatischer Mission. Er wurde selbst Anwalt, Abgeordneter im Parlament und arbeitete als Kriegsberichterstatter für die Times. Oliphant war mit fast allen Persönlichkeiten des öffentlichen Lebens bekannt. Als die Türen zum weltlichen Erfolg ganz offen standen, zog er sich in die Kommune des Swedenborgianers Thomas Lake Harris zurück, um gründlich an sich selbst zu arbeiten. Danach sorgte er, zusammen mit seiner Frau Alice, für die erste Besiedelung Palästinas durch jüdische Exilanten aus Osteuropa. Er lernte Hebräisch und Arabisch und förderte die erste Eisenbahnverbindung von Haifa nach Damaskus. Oliphant wurde der erste praktische Zionist und baute alles auf die Idee friedlicher Koexistenz mit der arabischen Bevölkerung auf. Nach dem Tode von Alice (1886) wollte er mit seiner zweiten Frau – Rosamond Dale Owen, einer Enkelin des Utopisten Robert Owen – das Palästinaprojekt weiterführen. Laurence Oliphant hinterließ rund 20 Werke; Romane, Reisebeschreibungen und Werke mystisch-spirituellen Charakters. Ein Jahr vor seinem Tod veröffentlichte er seine bedeutende Autobiographie Episodes in a Life of Adventure. Er starb wenige Monate nach seiner Heirat mit Rosamond im Alter von 59 Jahren an Lungenkrebs.

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer

Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was born in Munich in 1899. He came into contact with R. Steiner at an early age, studied chemistry in Basel and installed the lighting technology in the first Goetheanum.
He undertook scientific experiments in the field of ether research and technology, cultivated new seeds and developed the crystallization method.
At the end of the 1930s, he moved to the USA, where he also gave regular courses and lectures in Spring Valley.
Pfeiffer died on November 30, 1961 in Spring Valley near New York.

Ludwig Graf Polzer-Hoditz

Ludwig Count Polzer-Hoditz was born in Prague in 1869. After training as a cavalryman, he took early retirement. In 1908, he attended R. Steiner’s first lecture.
In 1917, alongside Otto Lerchenfeld and W.J. Stein, he was one of the first three people to whom Steiner introduced the idea of threefolding. Polzer introduced it to Kaiser Karl through his brother Arthur, who was head of his cabinet. He researched and wrote about the will of Peter the Great. His most important book (long out of print), The Mystery of the European Center, was published in 1928. In 1935 he tried to prevent his expulsion from the Anthroposophical Society in Dornach, and in 1936 he left the society and worked as a freelance publicist and lecturer. At the end of his life, Polzer wrote Schicksalsbilder aus der Zeit meiner Geistesschülererschaft – Erinnerungen in dramatischer Form.
Ludwig Polzer-Hoditz died in Vienna on October 13, 1945.

Ludwig Ritter von Polzer

Ludwig Ritter von Polzer (1807-1874) was a striking, artistic personality with literary abilities. Born in Brno, he joined the Viennese Court War Office after completing his studies. Thanks to two substantial inheritances, he was able to take early retirement at the age of forty. He now lived alternately with his beloved family in Graz – his wife was also artistically inclined: as a singer, she was sometimes accompanied on the piano by Franz Schubert in her younger years – and on his travels. He wrote stories for newspapers. They are characterized by a deep sense of individual destinies and the great lines of historical development.
Ludwig Ritter von Polzer died in Graz on June 14, 1874.

Guido Giacomo Preparata

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Caroll Quigley

Carroll Quigley (1910-1977) was perhaps the most outstanding American historian of the last century. He was a professor at Georgetown University in Washington from 1941 to 1976, where he taught Bill Clinton, among others. His strengths as a historian were his knowledge of an enormous amount of significant details and his ability to grasp the deep structures of historical events.
His main work Tragedy and Hope is a legendary book. Though hushed up by academic scholarship, its reputation has only continued to grow in the 40 years since its publication in 1966. In Tragedy and Hope, Quigley undertook a 1400-page account of the history of mankind in the period from about 1895 to 1965.

Richard Ramsbotham

Richard Ramsbotham (born 1962) is a writer and active in the theater. He lives near Birmingham. Ramsbotham studied at Cambridge University, Emerson College and the Artemis School of Speech and Drama. He lectured on English literature at the University of Warsaw (1989-1993) and worked as an actor and writer with the Rose Theatre Company. He is the editor of New Selected Poems of Vernon Watkins (Carcanet 2006) and runs Amador, a theater, education and research company (www.amador.co.uk).

Wilhelm Rath

Wilhelm Rath was born in Berlin in 1897. After returning from a prisoner of war camp, he discovered anthroposophy. First encounter with Rudolf Steiner in 1920. Studied natural science and German philology.
Rath became a farmer and studied the great figures of the Chartres School, some of whose works he translated and commented on. He published the important mystical work Der Gottesfreund vom Oberland.
Wilhelm Rath died on January 13, 1973 in Carinthia.

Giancarlo Roggero

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Jacob Ruchti

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W.J.Stein

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Rudolf Steiner

Rudolf Steiner (February 27, 1861 – March 30, 1925) studied natural sciences in Vienna and became the editor of Goethe’s Natural Scientific Writings. He created an epistemology of Goethe’s world view, in which he refuted Kant’s views, which still have an impact today; his doctoral thesis Truth and Science followed in 1891. His work The Philosophy of Freedom, published in 1894, demonstrates the spiritual-objective character of thought and establishes the cognitive and ethical autonomy of the human being. According to Steiner himself, this work contains the seeds for the spiritual science later known as anthroposophy. Due to the development of mental and spiritual organs of perception (see, among other things, How do you gain knowledge of the higher worlds?), this also includes the areas of the supersensible in the field of scientific research.
Steiner wrote around 30 works and gave over 6000 lectures.
Among other things, he spoke about the background to current events and pointed out the broad lines of Roman and Western politics. In 1919, he campaigned for the publication of Helmuth von Moltke’s notes in order to prevent a declaration of sole guilt against Germany, as was then enshrined in the Treaty of Versailles. He pointed out the alternative to the disintegrating nation state and had corresponding memoranda sent to the German and Austrian governments by students.
Steiner’s work within the Theosophical and later the Anthroposophical Society was aimed at systematically expanding the spiritual science he had founded. This not only stimulated the traditional sciences, but also led to the creation of the new art of movement, eurythmy, and to new impulses for social life (social threefolding). Pedagogy, agriculture and medicine as well as religious life also received completely new impulses, which gained increasing recognition in the 20th century. Rudolf Steiner developed a path of knowledge that allowed every human being to find a free, rational relationship to the real, spiritual world. Long before the “esoteric” New Age movement, he thus responded to a basic spiritual need of modern humanity in a way that corresponds to Western civilization, which is one-sidedly shaped by natural science and technology.

Anthony C.Sutton

Antony C. Sutton was born in London in 1925 and completed his academic training in London, Göttingen and California. He became an American citizen in 1962. From 1968 to 1973, he worked as a research fellow at the Hoover Institute for War, Revolution and Peace in Stanford (California). This resulted in the three-volume work Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development.
In 1974, Professor Sutton completed the work National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union (published in German as Der leise Selbstmord. America’s Military Aid to Moscow). The book, which deals with Western, mainly American, technological and financial aid to the USSR, became a bestseller.
In his fourth book, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler, now available in German for the first time, Sutton reveals the role of American bank and industry insiders in the financing of National Socialism.
Sutton supplemented this investigation with the books Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution and Wall Street and FDR.
In the 1980s, Sutton investigated the role of the influential Yale club Skull & Bones. The result was his magnum opus America’s Secret Establishment.
Antony Sutton died on June 17, 2002.

Johannes Tautz

Johannes Tautz was born in Koblenz in 1914. He studied German and history and graduated with a thesis on Schelling. After the Second World War, he taught German and history at the Waldorf School in Stuttgart. Tautz is the author of a biography of W.J. Stein. He lives in Darmstadt.

Ludwig Thieben

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Claudia Törpel

Claudia Törpel was born in Mannheim in 1965. After training as an agricultural technical assistant and working at the Institute for Biodynamic Research (Darmstadt), she studied art therapy in Ottersberg and then completed further training as a health consultant. Since 1995 she has been researching the ancient culture of Egypt and works part-time as a freelance writer. She is currently employed at the publishing house of the magazine “Der Merkurstab” in Berlin.

Cara Wilson

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