George Adams (anthroposophist)

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George Adams , actually George von Kaufmann (born February 8, 1894 in Marijampolė , Russian Empire , † March 30, 1963 in Birmingham ) was a British mathematician and anthroposophist .

Life

George Adams was born in what was then East Galicia as the son of the Australian-German industrialist Georg von Kaufmann and the Englishwoman Mary Adams . He studied chemistry (BA) and mathematics (MA) at the University of Cambridge between 1912 and 1918 ; he dealt intensively with the works of Whitehead and Russell .

In 1914 he got to know Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy ; he worked as an interpreter for his lectures in England and later translated numerous works by Steiner into English. In 1916 he joined the Anthroposophical Society . His own work deals with questions of Goetheanism , for example with projective geometry , after 1935 partly together with his colleague Olive Whicher.

In 1939 he volunteered for military service in London and was initially used as an interpreter in a prison camp, but was released after six months. After his German relations were critically examined, he called himself George Adams from 1940 . Until the end of the war he continued to serve as an eavesdropper for BBC monitoring and air raid protection.

He died with a befriended family in Edgbaston , a suburb of Birmingham , almost four years after a serious heart attack .

Works

  • Fruits of Anthroposophy , London 1922
  • Christ and the Earth , London 1927
  • Synthetic geometry, Goethean doctrine of metamorphosis and mathematical physics . In: Mathesis , Stuttgart 1931
  • The Anthroposophical Movement , London 1932
  • From the ethereal space . In: Natura , 6th year, issue 5/6, 1933
    • Book edition: Free Spiritual Life (Studies and Experiments 6), Stuttgart 1964; 2nd A. 1981, ISBN 3-7725-0036-6
  • Space and the Light of Creation. A new essay in Cosmic Theory , London 1933
  • Radiant world design. Synthetic Geometry in Humanities Illumination . Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Dornach 1934; 2. A. ibid. 1965, ISBN 3-7235-0002-1
  • Christ in the Power of Memory and the Power of Love , East Grinstead 1938
  • The Mysteries of the Rose-Cross , East Grinstead 1955; London 1989
    • Both titles in German as: Rosicrucianism as a mystery of the Trinity . Free Spiritual Life (suggestions for anthroposophical work 9), Stuttgart 1981; 2. A. 1994, ISBN 3-7725-1498-7
  • Physical and Ethereal Spaces , London 1965; 1978
  • Universal forces in mechanics. Vectors in space and counter space. Urraumscrews . Mathematical-Physical Institute, Dornach 1973
    • English edition: Universal Forces in Mechanics , London 1977
      • Revised new edition: Universal forces in mechanics. Perspectives of an anthroposophically extended mathematical physics . Verlag am Goetheanum (Mathematisch-Astronomische Blätter 20), Dornach 1996, ISBN 3-7235-0953-3
  • Basic questions of science. Essays on a Science of the Etheric . Free Spiritual Life (Contributions to Anthroposophy 5), Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-7725-0405-1
  • Lemniscatic ruled surfaces. A clear introduction to line geometry and imaginary theory . Verlag am Goetheanum (Mathematisch-Astronomische Blätter 14), Dornach 1989, ISBN 3-7235-0514-7

Together with Olive Whicher:

  • The Living Plant and the Science of Physical and Ethereal Space , Stourbridge 1949
  • The Plant between Sun and Earth , Clent 1952; London 1980
    • German revised in one volume as: The plant in space and counter space. Elements of a new morphology . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1960; 2nd supplement A. ibid. 1979, ISBN 3-7725-0450-7
  • Plant, sun, earth (art folder with text and 24 drawings). Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1963

literature

  • Olive Whicher: George Adams. A spirit seeker in our time . Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Dornach 1973

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