Walther Eidlitz

Walther Eidlitz (born August 28, 1892 in Vienna , † August 28, 1976 in Vaxholm in Sweden) was an Austrian writer in the field of poetry, short stories and drama. He later devoted himself to studying the intellectual history of India.

In view of his interest in Indian religion and philosophy , he left his family in Vienna and traveled to India , where he lived in search of God from 1938 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1951 . As an Austrian he was interned in India during the Second World War . In 1946 Eidlitz moved to Sweden, where he also died.

Works (selection)

1917: Hölderlin - Scenes from a fate (play)

1918: the golden wind (poems)

1919: The young Gina (short stories)

1921: The Autumn Birds (play)

1923: The Mountain in the Desert (Drama)

1926: The mighty (novellas)

1930: Zodiac (novel)

1932: The Light of the World (novel)

1935: Journey to the four winds: on the trail of world history.

1951: Bhakta - An Indian Odyssey (PDF; 821 kB)

1955: The Indian love of God

1956: Faith and the Scriptures of the Indians (PDF; 1.2 MB)

1968: Krsna-Caitanya - His life and teaching

1974: The meaning of life

Web links

• Literature by and about Walther Eidlitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biographical entry in the online documentation of the anthroposophical research center Kulturimpuls
• Books by Walther Eidlitz

• Biography , text about his relationship with his German Hindu teacher Svami Sadananda Dasa (Ernst Georg Schulze) and texts for download on the website of Svami Sadananda Dasa (Ernst Georg Schulze).