Roman Boos

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Roman Boos (born January 9, 1889 in Zurich , † December 10, 1952 in Arlesheim ) was a Swiss lawyer , social scientist , anthroposophist and freelance writer.

Life

Boos grew up in Zurich as the son of an immigrant German and a Swiss women's rights activist who grew up in Trieste ; his parents ran an international subsidiary there . He studied law and social science in Zurich and Berlin. The parents were already connected to anthroposophy . One of his three sisters, the doctor Ida (1887–1963), married Walther von Wartburg , a Romanist who was also closely associated with Rudolf Steiner's teachings . He himself married the anthroposophical painter Hildegard Hamburger (1887–1969); they had two children.

In Berlin he met the legal historian Otto von Gierke , the "father" of Germanic cooperative law , who had worked out its contrast to the individualism of the Roman corpus iuris civilis . He incorporated these and other ideas of cultural history - such as those of the art historian Heinrich Wölfflin - into his very extensive dissertation entitled The Collective Employment Agreement under Swiss law . It found the approval of his Zurich teacher Eugen Huber , the creator of the Swiss Civil Code . In 1934 he followed up on this intellectual history work with his book New Birth of German Law .

When Rudolf Steiner developed the idea of social threefolding from 1917 onwards, a new, specific field of work opened up for Boos: In 1919 he became secretary at the "Bund für Dreigliederung des Sozialorganism", where he did the main work alongside Steiner (and also personal secretarial work for Steiner) . He co-founded Futurum AG - an association of various companies whose profits were supposed to go to the “free intellectual life” - which later collapsed in the course of the German inflation .

In May 1921, Boos suffered a severe burnout- like collapse that resulted in several years of recovery and psychiatric treatment. It was only after Rudolf Steiner's death (1925) that he was able to resume his work - mainly as a freelance writer and lecturer, after 1945 also in Germany - and with his own passionate fighting spirit, he interfered in the conflicts within the Anthroposophical Society .

In 1942 he became the commercial director of a company for surgical instruments and married Edith Kutscher for the second time. In 1950 he founded the “Association for Free Entrepreneurship” with three close friends and employees. An important activity during the last years of his life was the implementation of the so-called “Helvetic Disputations”, which received a lot of public attention.

Works

Original editions

  • The European war and our Swiss war . Lecture given to the free student body of the University of Zurich in February 1915. SDV , Zurich 1915
  • The collective employment contract, according to Swiss law (Obl. R. Art. 322 and 323). German mental forms of German working life . Diss. Duncker & Humblot, Munich and Leipzig 1916; 2nd A. 1920
  • Record-based representation of the agitation against the Goetheanum . In: The agitation against the Goetheanum . 2 essays (with Rudolf Steiner). The coming day, Dornach / Stuttgart 1920
  • Rudolf Steiner and politics . In: From Rudolf Steiner's life's work . Ed. V. Friedrich Rittelmeyer . Chr. Kaiser, Munich 1921
    • New edition in single edition: Troxler, Bern 1946
  • Michael versus Michel. Catharsis of Germanness 1914–1925. Answer from German-speaking Switzerland to a French question . Publisher for Free Spiritual Life ( Willy Storrer ). Basel 1926
  • The drama of light in Matthias Grünewald's work . Geering, Basel 1928
  • From the cornerstone of Christianity . Postscript of a lecture given on January 25, 1927 in the Vienna branch. Self-published, Münchenstein 1928
  • On the essence of Rudolf Steiner's anthroposophy. In memory of Carl Unger . Philosophical-Anthroposophical Publishing House at the Goetheanum, Dornach 1929
  • The threefold idea, the Goetheanum and the threefold ideal in Rudolf Steiner's life and in the fate of the world . Based on a lecture given on Michaelmas 1929. Hugi, Münchenstein undated (1930)
  • Reality and appearance in the modern concept of the state . Rothschild, Berlin-Grunewald 1931
  • Debit and credit of the world crisis . After a lecture. Zbinden & Hügin, Basel 1932
  • Rudolf Steiner during the world war. Rudolf Steiner's contributions to the accomplishment of the tasks that the war posed to the world . Dornach 1933
  • New birth of German law. A contribution to overcoming the corpus juris . Oldenbourg, Munich 1934
  • The Order of the White Cross
  • Ave Helvetia or generally binding declaration of collective bargaining agreements? A free word on the federal discussion . Hugi, Arlesheim 1941
  • The social forms of life of freedom . Five lectures. Troxler, Bern 1942
  • Art, war and peace . Volksverlag, Elgg 1943
  • Imperial spirit and Swiss spirit . Lecture, given (...) as part of the lecture series of the Zurich Writers' Association. Volksverlag, Elgg 1945
    • New edition, with the subtitle A Contribution to the Idea of ​​Switzerland in Europe : Novalis, Schaffhausen 1992
  • The social space of freedom . Troxler, Bern 1945
  • Rudolf Steiner as a designer of social freedom . Troxler, Bern 1945
  • The social healing power of anthroposophy . Publishing house of the Social Science Association at the Goetheanum, Dornach 1946
  • Anthroposophy as a movement, as a society and as a university . Lecture to the Rudolf Steiner branch in Dornach on September 27, 1947. Manuscript print, n.d. n.d. (1948)
  • Active neutrality as the basic maxim of Swiss loyalty to the world . In: The World Significance of Swiss Neutrality . Artemis (writings currently 19), Zurich 1948
  • Goethe's Faust in the Drama of German Fate . Zbinden, Basel 1953
  • Freedom as a social creative force . 3 lectures. Association for Free Entrepreneurship, o. O. 1955
  • Thomas Aquinas. Translations - essays - lectures . Meier, Schaffhausen 1959

As editor

  • The way to the state and the borders of the state . The coming day, Stuttgart 1921
  • Social future. Basics of threefolding . The coming day, Stuttgart 1921
  • Elementary forces for peace. 3. «Helvetic Disputation» in Basel . AZ press, Aarau 1944
  • The image of man in the Catholic, Protestant, anthroposophical ideal of education (4th «Helvetic Disputation», with Heinrich Barth , Friedrich Eymann and Josef Rudin ). Paul Haupt, Bern 1946
  • Rudolf Steiner during the world war. Rudolf Steiner's contributions to the accomplishment of the tasks that the war posed to the world . With the consent of Ms. Marie Steiner ed. and introduced by Roman Boos. Publishing house of the Social Science Association at the Goetheanum, Dornach o. J.
  • Anthroposophy and academic sciences . Four lectures by Rudolf Steiner, given in Zurich in November 1917 (today included in GA 73). Europe, Zurich 1950
  • Social future . 6 lectures by Rudolf Steiner with answering questions (today = GA 332a). Troxler, Bern 1950
  • How does one work for the impulse of the threefolding of the social organism? A course for speakers . 10 lectures by Rudolf Steiner (today = GA 338). Troxler, Bern 19 ??

literature

  • Anna-Maria Balastèr-von Wartburg (ed.): The literary work of Roman Boos . Basel 1973

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personal data
SURNAME Boos, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss lawyer, social scientist, anthroposophist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1952
Place of death Arlesheim