Rudolf Steiner

Anthroposophy (or "Spirit Science")'s introduction and name are showed in Rudolf Steiner's main works: Teosofia, L'iniziazione, La scienza occulta, La filosofia della libertà (published by Editrice Antroposofica, Via Sangallo 34 21133 Milan).

Rudolf Steiner, Anthroposophy founder, was born in Austria in 1861 and came to the fore yet student, editing Goethe's science writings. Since 1890 to 1897 he collaborated with Goethe and Schiller Archive in Weimar. Since 1902 he had a more intense activity as writer and speaker, first within the Theosophical Society and then within Anthroposophical, founded by him in 1913. Besides thirty philosophical and anthroposophical written works, there are notes in shorthand of almost 6000 lectures about most various branches of knowledge. Impulses given by him to art, science, medicine, pedagogy and agriculture led to movements now more and more widespread around the world. He died in 1925 in Dornach (Switz.), where he had built (first wooden, then concrete) the Goetheanum