Bernard Lievegoed

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Bernard Lievegoed (born September 2, 1905 in Medan , Sumatra , † December 12, 1992 in Zeist ) was a Dutch doctor , social economist and anthroposophist .

Life

Lievegoed was born in what was then the Dutch East Indies . In 1914 the family moved to Rotterdam , where they stayed for three years. From 1918 to 1922 Lievegoed attended a secondary school on Java . In 1923 he returned to the Netherlands to do his Abitur. Lievegoed then began studying medicine in Groningen and Amsterdam . In 1924 he got to know anthroposophical curative education . In 1930 he finished his medical studies and established himself as a general practitioner in Bosch en Duin (near Zeist ). In 1939 Lievegoed received his doctorate with a dissertation on the basics of music therapy in Amsterdam.

In 1931 he founded the Zonnehuis in Zeist , a home for disabled children. In the course of an expansion, the name was changed to Zonnehuizen Veldheim Steinia te Zeist . Until 1954 Lievegoed was director of this institution. In 1932, Lievegoed also helped found the Vrije School Zeist (a Waldorf school ).

In 1946 he published the first of a series of books entitled Ontwikkelingsfasen van het kind . It was translated into eight languages ​​and also appeared in German as the child's developmental phases .

From 1948 to 1953 Lievegoed worked as a consultant for the upbringing of children from educationally disadvantaged sections of the population. In 1952 he was a co-founder of the anthroposophical publishing house Vrij Geestesleven .

In 1954, Lievegoed founded the Dutch Pedagogical Institute for Economics , which was renamed NPI: Institute for Organizational Development. Bernard Lievegoed was in charge of the institute for seventeen years. In 1955 he became an associate professor for social pedagogy at the NEH (Nederlandse Ekonomische Hogeschool, today Erasmus University Rotterdam ).

In 1961 he supported the establishment of a technical university in the Twente region (today University of Twente ), which was opened in 1964. Lievegoed worked as a professor for social economics and as dean of the economics faculty until 1973. He also founded a society for health educators during this time.

In 1961 he took over the chairmanship of the Antroposofische Vereniging in Nederland from the surprisingly deceased Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven (until 1975). Between 1968 and 1976 he was appointed to the government commission for education, which was supposed to reform the Dutch education system in Holland.

In 1964, together with the musician and instrument maker Norbert Visser, he founded the Kind en Instrument Foundation to enable the construction of Choroi instruments in socio-therapeutic workshops.

From 1970 to 1974, he was chairman of the supervisory board of the Dutch Waldorf School Teacher Training VPA ( Vrije Pedagogical Academy , today Hogeschool Helicon ). In 1973 he left the Erasmus University to work for the Vrije Hogeschool, which he founded in 1971 (today Bernard Lievegoed College for Liberal Arts ) in Driebergen until 1982 as rector. In the last two decades of his life before his death in 1992, he was also increasingly active as a writer and lecturer.

Publications

  • Social arrangements in curative education . A series of lectures to anthroposophical curative educators. Gravelmann, Wuppertal 1970
    • New edition as: Social arrangements using the example of curative educational institutions . Info3-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1986
  • Organization in transition. The practical management of social systems in the future . Haupt, Bern 1974
  • Stages of development of the child . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1976; 8 A. 2007, ISBN 3-88069-123-1
  • The spiritual flow of the curative education movement . Natura, Arlesheim 1978
    • New edition in: Geistquellen der Pädagogik (with From the inner path of the curative educator by Irene Rascher). Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1994
  • Mystery currents in Europe and the new mysteries . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1979
  • Life crises - life chances. Human development between childhood and old age . Kösel, Munich 1979; 12th, newly designed edition 2001, ISBN 3-466-34442-5
  • Towards the twenty-first century . Eight lectures given in Spring Valley in 1965. Manuscript printed in 1980
    • New edition, supplemented by an interview by Ramon Brüll: Info3-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1991
  • Special educational considerations . Edition Bingenheim, Wuppertal 1984
  • The man on the threshold. Biographical crises and development opportunities . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1985
  • Planetary effects and life processes in humans and earth , Darmstadt 1985
  • On Institutions of Spiritual Life , Dornach 1989
  • Reflection on the foundation stone . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1989
  • Ancient mysteries and social evolution. Social crises and development opportunities . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-7725-0849-9
  • Through the eye of the needle. A life with anthroposophy . Interview by Jelle van der Meulen. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7725-1219-4
  • Training paths. The path of the individual and the path in karmic community . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1992
  • About saving the soul. The interaction of three great leaders of humanity . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7725-1455-3
  • Dynamic corporate development. How pioneering companies and bureaucracies become lean companies (with Friedrich Glasl ). Haupt, Bern / Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1993
    • 3rd revised edition: Haupt, Bern 2004 (with changed subtitle Basics for Sustainable Change Management ), ISBN 3-258-06698-1
  • A culture of the heart. Lectures, essays and interviews . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-7725-1230-5

literature

  • Christine Pflug, Wolfgang Weirauch: In search of the common thread. Interview with Bernard Lievegoed. In: Flensburger Hefte: Biography work. Issue 31/2003, pp. 13–59, ISBN 3-926841-31-1
  • from Plato, Bodo: Bernard CJ Lievegoed. In: Buchka, Grimm, Klein (Hrsg.): Life pictures of important curative educators of the 20th century. Munich 2002, ISBN 3-497-01611-X

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Christine Pflug, Wolfgang Weirauch: In search of the red thread. Interview with Bernard Lievegoed. In: Flensburger Hefte: Biography work. Issue 31/2003, p. 13.
  2. ↑ Norbert Visser: The Choroi musical instrument as a musical and social impulse. In: Care of the soul in curative education and social therapy . No. 1 , 1983, p. 6-11 .
personal data
SURNAME Lievegoed, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lievegoed, Bernardus CJ
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch doctor, social economist and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Medan , Sumatra
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1992
Place of death Zeist