Helene von Grunelius

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Helene von Grunelius (born August 14, 1897 in Kolbsheim , † December 17, 1936 in Arlesheim ) was a German anthroposophical doctor. At the age of 22 she joined the Anthroposophical Society.

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She grew up in a large family. Her father was raised to hereditary nobility in 1908. The children of von Grunelius' children came into contact with anthroposophy very early on : the parents themselves had a theosopic attitude, as did their private tutor Julia Charlotte Mellinger, who was an anthroposophist. Helene's older sister Elisabeth is the primary kindergarten teacher at the Waldorf kindergarten.

After graduating from high school, which she passed in Strasbourg, Helene von Grunelius studied medicine in Tübingen and Frankfurt / Main, among others. In the latter city, the young student was involved in an anthroposophical student group. Furthermore, she deepened her own anthroposophical studies and wrestled “with the medicine taught at universities. During this time she got to know many of the anthroposophical doctors better, attended Steiner's second medical and first eurythmy therapy course in the Easter period of 1921 and pursued the two clinics that were founded in Arlesheim and Stuttgart ”. In the autumn of 1923 Helene von Grunelius moved to Stuttgart. There she completed her medical degree with a practical year in a city hospital a year later. She also actively participated in the anthroposophical development there:

After two interesting discussions with the doctorate physicist and head of the research institute of the 'Coming Day', Rudolf Maier, she obtained spontaneous permission to take part in Rudolf Steiner's ... 'Warmth' course for the Stuttgart Waldorf School teachers. She also received from ... Clara Smits ... a transcript of Steiner's great medical course on 'Occult Physiology' from 1911 .

In particular, the course held by Rudolf Steiner on the morality of medical study and practice (esoteric and exoteric) decisively determined her anthroposophical path within medicine. After a long illness, Helene von Grunelius opened her own practice in Stuttgart in September 1927. As a school doctor at the Stuttgart Waldorf School, she worked more and more closely with Eugen Kolisko and, as in previous years, was in close contact with Ita Wegman . From 1935 she worked as a doctor at Eugen Kolisko's side in the Burghalde sanatorium, which soon became “a blooming, healing place”. The young doctor liked "the therapeutic sanatorium work ... In the Burghalde, Grunelius was able to concentrate fully on her patients, arrange everything on therapy and intervene on various levels." When Kolisko emigrated to England relatively suddenly, she also laid hers Work in Burghalde. On a trip to Italy, Helene von Grunelius' health collapsed. She died soon after, aged only 39.

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literature

  • Peter Selg : Helene von Grunelius and Rudolf Steiner's courses for young doctors. A biographical study, Dornach 2003

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selg 2003, p. 22.
  2. ↑ Selg 2003, p. 18
  3. ^ The origin of the Burghalde Sanatorium ( Memento from May 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Selg 2003, p. 145
  5. ↑ Selg 2003, p. 146
personal data
SURNAME Grunelius, Helene von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthroposophic doctor
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Kolbsheim
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 1936
Place of death Arlesheim