Rudolf Meyer (anthroposophist)

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Rudolf Meyer (born February 13, 1896 in Hanover ; † July 6, 1985 in Göppingen ) was a German pastor of the Christian community , anthroposophist and writer.

Life

Rudolf Meyer was born the son of the businessman Otto Meyer and his wife, Betty, born John in Hanover, grew - along with a sister - in Ballenstedt and Taught at and graduated from the Evangelical Leibniz-Gymnasium in Hanover High School shortly before the First World War . Since he was unsuited for military service after a failed appendix operation, he immediately began studying theology in Kiel and Heidelberg , with philosophy in Göttingen in between (as a student of Edmund Husserl , whom he followed to Freiburg ). There he came into friendly contact with Edith Stein . He passed the first theological exam in Kiel in 1918 and attended the seminary in Preetz .

In 1916 he got to know anthroposophy. He began to give lectures in 1919 and soon became a full-time speaker for anthroposophy throughout Northern Germany.

From 1921 he was active in all preparations that led to the establishment of the Christian community. However, he was unable to attend the ordination of the first 45 priests in Dornach; it was consecrated five weeks later by Johannes Werner Klein . From then on he worked as a pastor: first in northern Germany and Saxony, in between in Prague , then in Düsseldorf , where in 1936 he married Johanna Bobisch, who came from Breslau . In 1924 he took part in Rudolf Steiner's agricultural course in Koberwitz and from then on also supported the curative education work of his friend Karl König . From 1932 he also taught at the Stuttgart seminary of the Christian Community. Together with Kurt von Wistinghausen and Rudolf von Koschützki , pastor Meyer, who was always joking , formed a literary and musically active “troika”.

In 1939 Rudolf Meyer moved to Switzerland, where he worked for the community in Zurich for twelve years . The children from his wife's first marriage had to emigrate because of their Jewish father; so his stepson Peter Engel became a doctor at Camphill home in Aberdeen, Scotland .

After an operation for colon cancer, Rudolf Meyer moved to Karlsruhe in 1952 , then to Stuttgart as a consultant in 1973. He spent the last years of his life in the “Haus Hohenstein” retirement home in Murrhardt.

Works (selection)

Rudolf Meyer has written over 40 books - including poetry and proverbs - and around 400 magazine articles. Together with Margareta Morgenstern , after the death of the author Michael Bauer , he carried out the Morgenstern biography he had begun ; it was published by Piper in 1933 .

  • The child. About the miracle of the incarnation and the care of the child's soul . Verlag der Christengemeinschaft (Christ of All Earth, Volume 26), Stuttgart 1927
  • The wisdom of German folk tales . Publishing house of the Christian Community, Stuttgart 1935
  • Goethe, the pagan and the Christian . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1936
  • Novalis. The Christ experience and the new spiritual revelation . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1939
  • Finland's spiritual heritage. The Finnish myth and the folk epic "Kalewala" . Geering, Basel 1940
    • Reissued as: Kalewala. Finnish Myth and Spiritual Heritage of Finland . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1964
  • The wisdom in Swiss fairy tales . Columban, Schaffhausen 1944
  • From the genius of Switzerland . Columban, Arlesheim 1952
  • The grail and its keepers . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1956
    • New edition as: Time becomes space here. The Grail Story . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1980
  • Christian Morgenstern in Berlin . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1959
  • Who was Rudolf Steiner? His life and work . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1961
    • New edition as: Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophy: Challenge in the 20th Century . Free Spiritual Life, Stuttgart 1975
  • The recovery of the Gospel of John . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1962
  • Albert Steffen, artist and Christian . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1963
  • Elias or the purpose of the earth . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1964
  • Nordic apocalypse . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1967
  • For the redemption of the animal world. Reflections and poems . Urachhaus, Stuttgart 1970

literature

Web links

  • Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
personal data
SURNAME Meyer, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pastor, anthroposophist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 1985
Place of death Goeppingen