Norbert Glas

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Norbert Glas (born January 28, 1897 in Vienna , † March 30, 1986 in Whaddon near Stroud , United Kingdom ) was an Austrian doctor and anthroposophist .

life and work

Norbert Glas grew up in a Jewish family in Vienna. He studied medicine there , interrupted by the First World War, where he came to Russia as a soldier, later in Albanian captivity and fell ill with typhus . After his recovery he continued his studies at the University of Vienna , where he met Eugen Kolisko and with him anthroposophy. He married the doctor Maria Deutsch; they had three children.

In 1920 he got to know Rudolf Steiner and Ita Wegman personally at the opening ceremony of the first Goetheanum . In 1921 he took part in the second medical course in Dornach . In 1923 he was elected to the board of the Anthroposophical Society in Austria. From 1928 to 1938 he headed the sanatorium in Gnadenwald near Innsbruck, which worked together with the Wegmans Clinical Therapeutic Institute . When he left Austria in the course of the “ Anschluss ”, Margarethe and Rudolf Hauschka took over the management of the institution until it was closed in 1941.

Glas emigrated to England with his family and had lived near Stroud since 1940 . There he was the school doctor of a Waldorf school founded in 1938 and built up his own medical practice, which he ran until his death. In addition, he ran a small private clinic and later an old people's home.

In addition to his medical work, he conducted research in the field of anthroposophic cancer therapy and wrote numerous books in English and German, especially on topics relating to human biography and physiognomics .

Works (in German)

  • The formal language of the face. New ways to a human physiognomy . Weidmann, Vienna 1935
  • Childhood illnesses as stages of development . Weidmann, Vienna 1937
  • Age of man . 3 volumes. Working group of anthroposophic doctors, Stuttgart 1954ff:
    • Volume 1: Early Childhood. A Guide for Everyone Interested in Young Child Development , 1954; 4. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-88069-157-6
    • Volume 2: Adolescence and middle age. Paths and obstacles. A Doctor's Considerations and Advice , 1960; 3. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-158-4
    • Volume 3: Age full of light. A guide for younger and older people . Working Group of Anthroposophic Doctors, Stuttgart 1956; 5. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-88069-159-2
  • Endangering and healing the senses . Working Group of Anthroposophic Doctors, Stuttgart 1958; 4. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-88069-160-6
  • Physiognomics , 8 volumes, Stuttgart 1961ff:
    • Volume 1: The face reveals people. Spiritual physiognomics . Working Group of Anthroposophic Doctors, Stuttgart 1961; 6. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-88069-135-5
    • Volume 2: The face reveals people. The temperaments . Working Group of Anthroposophic Doctors, Stuttgart 1963; 4. A. Mellinger, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88069-170-3
    • Volume 3: The hands reveal people . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1966; 4. A. ibid. 1994, ISBN 3-88069-026-X
    • Volume 4: The feet reveal human will . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1972; 2. A. ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-88069-129-0
    • Volume 5: Human Hair . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-88069-011-1
    • Volume 6: On the physiognomics of gait and posture of people . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-88069-067-7
    • Volume 7: Facial Expressions. The moving face . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3-88069-042-1
    • Volume 8: Misanthropic forces in the face . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-88069-224-6
  • Byron's fateful puzzle . Free spiritual life (suggestions for anthroposophical work 2), Stuttgart 1962
  • Henry Stanley . Fate requirement and fate fulfillment in the life of a researcher . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1964; 2. A. ibid. 1986, ISBN 3-88069-025-1
  • Ferdinand Raimund . His life and his fate . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1974, ISBN 3-88069-201-7
  • In the sign of Saturn. Victor Hugo , life and shape . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-88069-205-X
  • Amos Comenius . Philosopher and educator of Arabism . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1976, ISBN 3-88069-210-6
  • Nero . Evil and its purification . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-88069-211-4
  • Motifs of fate in Ibsen's dramatic work . Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag, Dornach 1981, ISBN 3-7235-0221-0
  • Spiritual origins of physical illnesses, shown in the life of famous personalities . Mellinger, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-88069-072-3
  • Memories of Rudolf Steiner and unpublished articles from the estate , ed. v. Thomas Meyer . Perseus, Basel 2001, ISBN 3-907564-57-X
  • Ignatius of Loyola and Emanuel Swedenborg . A karmic contemplation . With an afterword by Thomas Meyer. Perseus, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-907564-41-3
  • The “first” and “last” love in human life and their spiritual meaning . Perseus, Basel 2005, ISBN 3-907564-44-8
  • August Strindberg (1849-1912). Re-embodiment - Fate - Illness illustrated by a historical example . With the memories of Carl Ludwig Schleich . Perseus, Basel 2007, ISBN 3-907564-46-4

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personal data
SURNAME Glass, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian doctor and anthroposophist
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1986
Place of death Whaddon at Stroud , United Kingdom