Walter Johannes Stein

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Walter Johannes Stein

Walter Johannes Stein (born February 6, 1891 in Vienna ; † July 7, 1957 in London ) was an Austrian anthroposophist , Waldorf teacher, naturopath and writer.

Life

Walter Johannes Stein grew up in Vienna as the son of a lawyer and a theosophist . He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1918 with a dissertation entitled Historical-Critical Contributions to the Development of Modern Philosophy , which he had developed with the help of Rudolf Steiner . He had previously participated in the First World War as an artillery officer .

In the same year he married and campaigned for the threefolding of the social organism with writings and lectures . After their failure, he was appointed to teach German and history at the first Waldorf school in Stuttgart. To this end, he was committed to the Anthroposophical Society in Germany, from 1923 to 1928 as a board member.

In 1932 he left the Waldorf School and moved to England to work with Daniel Nicol Dunlop for his research office at the World Energy Council, founded in 1924 . After his death in 1935 he published the monthly The Present Age until the beginning of World War II .

During the war he began to work as a non-medical practitioner - he had been involved in medicine since around 1920, he was also close friends with the anthroposophical physician Ita Wegman and his school friend Eugen Kolisko in Vienna - and held public lectures on medicine until his death in 1957 (and other) topics and worked on a book on the basics and perspectives of spiritually advanced medicine.

Works

  • The modern scientific way of thinking and Goethe's worldview as represented by Rudolf Steiner . Wölfing, Constance 1919
    • Commented new edition in: WJ Stein / Rudolf Steiner: Documentation of a groundbreaking cooperation , ed. v. Thomas Meyer. Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 2), Dornach 1985, ISBN 3-7235-0384-5
  • Rudolf Steiner as a philosopher and theosophist. An answer to the eponymous font Dr. Friedrich Traub's, Prof. in Tübingen . The coming day, Stuttgart 1920
  • The threefolding of the social organism , 1922
  • Major General z. D. Gerold VonGleich. Material for forming your own judgment about yourself . The coming day, Stuttgart 1922
  • World history in the light of the holy grail . Orient-Occident-Verlag, Stuttgart 1928
  • The work question in the past and present . Orient-Occident-Verlag, Stuttgart 1932
  • The gold in the past and present . Stuttgart 1932
  • What does the West owe the East? Orient-Occident-Verlag, Stuttgart 1932
  • The British, their psychology and destiny . New Knowledge Books, East Grinstead (Sussex) 1958
  • Educational tasks and human development (secondary title: educational tasks and human history ). Free Spiritual Life (Human Studies and Education 37), Stuttgart 1980
  • The death of Merlin. The image of man in myth and alchemy . With the memoirs and a bibliography ed. by Thomas Meyer. Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 1), Dornach 1984

literature

  • Johannes Tautz : Walter Johannes Stein. A biography . Verlag am Goetheanum (Pioneers of Anthroposophy 6), Dornach 1989

Stein as a literary figure

Stein appears as one of the main characters in the books The Holy Lance and The Chalice of Fate by the author Trevor Ravenscroft , who portrays him there as his friend and mentor. Ravenscroft claims, among other things, that Stein served the young Adolf Hitler during his time in Vienna 1909–1913 as a discussion partner on political, historical and philosophical literature. However, in a 1984 interview with reporter Eric Wynants, Ravenscroft admitted that he had never met Stein personally, but only communicated with him through a medium .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Trevor Ravenscroft: The Holy Lance , Mühlhausen-Ehingen 2013, p. 19
  2. ↑ Alec Macellan, The Secret of the Spear - The Mystery of The Spear of Longinus , S. 116th

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personal data
SURNAME Stein, Walter Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian anthroposophist, Waldorf teacher, alternative practitioner and writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1957
Place of death London