Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven

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Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven (born November 23, 1893 in Helmond , Netherlands ; † November 18, 1961 in Cape Town , South Africa ) was a Dutch psychiatrist and anthroposophist . As the general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands for many years , with his lecturing activities and his publications - including the first biography of Rudolf Steiner - Zeylmans van Emmichoven was a leading figure in the anthroposophical movement.

Life

Frederik Willem Zeylmans van Emmichoven was born the son of a Dutch chocolate manufacturer. His mother was German. His childhood was marked by mental crises. After overcoming a severe typhoid disease , he began studying medicine at the age of eighteen and soon specialized in psychiatry . Due to his preference for colors, stimulated by the painter Jacoba van Heemskerck and her friend and patron Marie Tak van Poortvliet, he undertook experimental research into the effect of colors on feeling. He continued his medical studies in Leipzig with Wilhelm Wundt . An encounter with Rudolf Steiner in 1920 strengthened his color research. He wrote his dissertation on the effect of colors on feeling .

At the age of twenty-eight, Zeylmans began teaching in front of a public interested in anthroposophy and in front of specialist colleagues. He was involved in setting up the first Waldorf school in The Hague and founded a small clinic. When the Anthroposophical Society was founded in the Netherlands in November 1923, he became its general secretary. In addition to his medical and psychiatric work, Zeylmans went on many lecture tours. He often talked about colors and their effect on people and gave advice to paint manufacturers, architects, museum directors and artists.

Zeylmans' main concerns were international understanding and cosmopolitanism . His attempt to found a world school association, which should serve the expansion of Waldorf education and its free financing, failed not least because of the resistance of anthroposophical circles, which opposed broad public relations. Another project was able to bring the youth of Europe into connection with anthroposophy against the background of growing political fanaticism: In the spring of 1930 over 1000 young participants met to participate in working groups and lectures by personalities such as Eugen Kolisko and Walter Johannes Stein , Elisabeth Vreede or Ita Wegman to exchange information about the time slot. The political developments restricted his work more and more. His commitment also met with increasing rejection within the Anthroposophical Society: the internal differences since Rudolf Steiner's death and his close collaboration with Ita Wegman led to his exclusion in 1935.

After the war, Zeylmans resumed his work as a traveling lecturer, which took him around the world for nine months in 1954. In 1960, encouraged by Bernard Lievegoed, he asked the members of the Anthroposophical Society in the Netherlands to reintegrate this national society, which had been excluded twenty-five years earlier, into the General Anthroposophical Society based at the Goetheanum . He performed this act at the general assembly of the same year in Dornach (Switzerland). In 1961 he traveled to South Africa, visited schools and other institutions to give lectures and give advice. He died during his trip in Cape Town.

Works

  • De Werking van de kleuren op het gevoel , Utrecht 1923.
  • Rudolf Steiner , The Hague 1932.
    • German: Rudolf Steiner . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1961.
  • Ontwikkeling en geestesstrijd , The Hague 1935.
    • German: Development and intellectual struggle , Stuttgart 1935.
  • De menselijke Ziel , Utrecht 1943.
    • German: The human soul. Introduction to the knowledge of the essence, activity and development of the soul . Die Pforte, Basel 1953; 3. A. Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-7725-1238-0 .
  • Hygiene van de Ziel , Utrecht 1946.
    • German: Conversations about the hygiene of the soul . Natura, Arlesheim 1957; 3. A. 1988, ISBN 3-7235-0624-0 .
  • Amerika en hetikanisme , The Hague 1950.
    • German: America and Americanism . The coming ones, Freiburg im Breisgau 1954.
  • The cornerstone . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1956, 7 A. 1999, ISBN 3-7725-0598-8 .
  • De Werkelijkheid waarin wij leven , Zeist 1959.
    • German: The reality in which we live. The central position of the Mystery of Golgotha ​​in human development. An introduction to Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy . Natura, Arlesheim 1959; 2. A. 1977, ISBN 3-7235-0623-2 .
      • Reissued as: The Reality We Live In. Human development from an anthroposophical perspective . Fischer paperback, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-596-25556-2 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Joop van Dam: FW Zeylmans van Emmichoven. Research Center for Culture Impulse, accessed on November 15, 2012 .
  2. ^ FW Zeylmans van Emmichoven; Small color primer for a wallpaper sample book ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dekleurenschaar.nl
personal data
SURNAME Zeylmans van Emmichoven, Frederik Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch psychiatrist and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Helmond , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1961
Place of death Cape Town , South Africa