Jörgen Smit

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Jörgen Smit around 1983

Jörgen Smit (born July 21, 1916 in Bergen ; † May 10, 1991 in Arlesheim ) was a Norwegian teacher, university lecturer, speaker and publicist, especially in the context of the Waldorf movement and the Anthroposophical Society . He worked as general secretary of the Anthroposophical Society in Norway, as co-founder of the Rudolf Steiner Seminar in Järna and as a board member of the General Anthroposophical Society at the Goetheanum .

Life

Jörgen Smit grew up as the second of seven sons in Bergen, later in Oslo . He came from an anthroposophical family, his father Christian Sundt Smit became the first pastor in the Christian community in 1926 . in Norway when Jörgen was 10 years old. He studied classical philology in Oslo and Basel , majoring in ancient Greek . From 1941 to 1965 he worked as a teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School in Bergen. In addition to his teaching activities, he became a speaker on a wide range of topics from a young age, mostly with reference to anthroposophy and Waldorf education . From 1966 to 1975 he played a decisive role in setting up the Rudolf Steiner Seminar in Järna by building up the teachers' seminar there. In collaboration with the artist Arne Klingborg , the architect Erik Asmussen and the entrepreneur Âke Kumlander, a larger anthroposophical center was created within a few years.

In 1975 he was appointed to the board of the General Anthroposophical Society in Dornach , where, in addition to his general board activities, he headed the youth section and later also the pedagogical section. He gave more than half of the 4889 lectures he held throughout his life in the 16 years of Dornach until his death in 1991. He gave lecture tours on all continents, albeit mainly in Europe. The majority of his printed works are edited transcripts of his lectures.

Works (in German)

  • The impact of anthroposophy on various specialist areas and its relationship to the Anthroposophical Society . Natura, Arlesheim 1980
  • Spirit training and life practice. The foundation stone meditation as a future impulse . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1987, ISBN 3-7235-0444-2
  • Everyday training as a challenge . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1989, ISBN 3-7235-0556-2
  • The human being. For meditative deepening of education . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7725-0946-0
  • Social practice . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1990, ISBN 3-7235-0560-0
  • Meditation and Christ Experience. Ways to transform your own life . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7725-1055-8
  • Cognitive drama in the present. Goethe's Faust . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1991, ISBN 3-7235-0594-5
  • Youth anthroposophy . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1992, ISBN 3-7235-0664-X
  • Life drama - mystery drama. On Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993, ISBN 3-7235-0698-4
  • The common source of art and knowledge . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1999, ISBN 3-7235-1043-4

Posts:

  • The responsibility for the earth. Necessary knowledge . In: The endangered me . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-7725-0725-5
  • Education and Meditation . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1983, ISBN 3-7235-0361-6
  • Change in consciousness of modern mankind . In: Central Europe in the field of tension of the present . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-7725-0860-X
  • The awakening to the working spirit in the community . In: Humanities and Society . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 1987, ISBN 3-7235-0446-9
  • Exercise freedom. Meditation in the cognitive practice of anthroposophy (among others with Georg Kühlewind ). Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1988; 2nd A. 1991, ISBN 3-7725-1205-4
  • Essential effect of the third hierarchy . In: The Rhythm of Waking and Sleeping . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-7725-1117-1
  • Basis, reality, objective of Waldorf education . Böhlau, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-205-05320-6
  • The healing power of the middle (with Walter Holtzapfel ). Natura, Arlesheim 1992

literature

  • Obituaries in: What is going on in the Anthroposophical Society , 25/1991.
  • Jörgen Smit . In: Anthroposophy in the 20th Century. A cultural impulse in biographical portraits . Verlag am Goetheanum, Dornach 2003, ISBN 3-7235-1199-6 .

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annotation

  1. ↑ Written in Norway by Jørgen . Jørgen Faye Smit was also mentioned in older passports , according to a naming convention common in Norway: Faye is the mother's maiden name.
personal data
SURNAME Smit, Jörgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Smit, Jørgen Faye
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian writer, teacher and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergen (Norway) , Norway
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1991
Place of death Arlesheim , Switzerland