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The Rudolf Steiner Archive

a project of Steiner Online Library, a public charity

Online Biographical Information

Title Author Year
Book Covers
Christianity As Mystical Fact Author Name 1961
Cosmic Memory Author Name 1959
Mysticism at the Dawn of the Modern Age Paul Michael Allen 1960
Back Cover Sheets
Cosmic Memory 1981
The Cycle of the Year as Breathing-Process of the Earth 1923
Inner Impulses of Evolution 1984
Knowledge of the Higher Worlds 1947
Origins of Natural Science 1985
An Outline of Occult Science 1972
The Anthroposophical Movement 1993
Biographical Sketches
Christianity As Mystical Fact Rev. Alfred Heidenreich 1961
Miscellaneous Bios
The Philosophy of Freedom Michael Wilson 1964
Rudolf Steiner (from: The Philosophy of Freedom) Michael Wilson 1964
A Short Biography of Rudolf Steiner Unknown
Introduction from Riddles of Philosophy Fritz Koelln 1973
A Chronological Biography of Rudolf Steiner V.W. Setzer 1995
Chronology of Rudolf Steiner's Life 1993
Rudolf Steiner
In Memory of Rudolf Steiner Marie Steiner 1932
The Personality of Rudolf Steiner and His Development Edouard Schuré 1910
Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction of His Life and Thought Olin D. Wannamaker 1928
The Story of My Life Rudolf Steiner 1925

Known Biographies of Rudolf Steiner

  • Rudolf Steiner Education and the Developing Child, by Willi Aepli
    Anthroposophic Press 1986 Hudson, NY. ISBN 0-88010-164-4
  • Sun at Midnight, Ahern, Geoffrey, The Aquarian Press 1990 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire ISBN 0-85030-338-9
  • Rudolf Steiner: The Man and His Work,, Allen, Paul M., St. George Publications 1959 Spring Valley NY
  • Modern Mystics and Sages, Bancroft, Anne, Granada Press 1978 London
  • Rudolf Steiner as Educator, Baravalle, Hermann von, Waldorf School Monographs
  • A Life for the Spirit, Barnes, Henry, Anthroposophic Press, 1979, 256 pp., Hudson NY ISBN 0-88010-395-7
  • Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner, Belyi, Andrei, Aasya Turgenieff, and Margarita Voloschin, Adonis Press 1987 Ghent N.Y. ISBN 0-932776-13-2 Cloth
  • Rudolf Steiner's New Approach to Color on the Ceiling of the First Goetheanum, Bemmelen, D. J. Van, Rudolf Steiner College Press, 59pp
  • The Goetheanum: Rudolf Steiner's Architectural Impulse (with Arne Klingborg), Biesantz, Hagen, Rudolf Steiner Press, London ISBN 0-85440-355-8 Paper
  • From Luther to Steiner, Boldt, Ernst, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1923
  • Anthroposophical Medicine, Bott, V., Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1978
  • John Dee Studied as an English Neoplatonist, Calder, I., Dissertation, 1953, U. London
  • Rudolf Steiner, Calgren, Frans, 51pp, illustrated Goetheanum, Dornach, Switzerland
  • The Holistic Teaching Methods of Francis Parker, John Dewey, Rudolf Steiner, Hughes Mearns, and Laura Zirbes: Literacy via the Whole Child, Cavanaugh, Mary Patricia, Dissertation, 1990, Michigan State U.
  • Steiner Education in Theory and Practice, Childs, Gilbert, Floris Press, 288pp, 1992, Edinburgh
  • Rudolf Steiner: His Life and Work, Childs, Gilbert, Anthroposophic Press, New York, 111 pp, 1996, ISBN 0-88010-391-4
  • Work Arising from the Life of Rudolf Steiner, Darcy, J.(ed.), Rudolf Steiner Press, London, 1975
  • A Man Before Others: Rudolf Steiner Remembered, Davy, John, Rudolf Steiner Press, Bristol, 1993, 219 pp, ISBN 1-85584-007-3
  • Work Arising from the Life of Rudolf Steiner, Davy, John, Rudolf Steiner Press, 1975, London, 228pp, ISBN 0-85440-293-4 ISBN 0-85440-294-2
  • Rudolf Steiner, Herald of a New Epoch, Easton, Stewart C., Anthroposophic Pr. 1980 Spring Valley, NY, ISBN 0-91014-293-9 Paper
  • Rudolf Steiner Education, Edmunds, Louis Francis, Rudolf Steiner Press 1962 London, 376pp, and Anthroposophic Press 198_ Hudson, NY, 376pp, ISBN 0-910142-93-9 Paper
  • Rudolf Steiner's Sculpture in Dornach, Fant, Ake, and Arne Klingborg and A. J. Wilkes, Rudolf Steiner Press, 1975, London, ISBN 0-85440-301-9
  • Art Inspired by Rudolf Steiner Fletcher, John, Rudolf Steiner Press 1991, London, 231pp, ISBN 0-85440-516-X Cloth
  • Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy of History Dissertation, Foley, Marya, 1981, U. of New Mexico
  • The Waldorf Schools: An Exploration of an Enduring Dissertation, Foster, Sarah Whitmer, Alternative School Movement Florida State U., 1981
  • Goethe and Steiner , Freeman, Arnold, Sheffield Educational Press, 1947, 20pp
  • Rudolf Steiner's Message to Mankind 47pp New Knowledge Presss 1958 Sussex England
  • What Rudolf Steiner Says about Initiation 113 pp. Courrier Press 1963 Turnbridge Wells Kent
  • Spiritual Science in the Age of Materialism Galbreath, R. C., Dissertation, 1970, U. of Michigan
  • An Analytical Study of the Rhetorical Thought of Rudolf Steiner with Some Implications for the Teaching of Speach Glas, Werner, Dissertation, 1977, Wayne State U.
  • Rudolf Steiner As I Experienced Him Free Deeds Hahn, Herbert, April 1962
  • The Education of a Yankee: An American Memoir Hale, Judson,
  • The Goetheanum Glass Windows Hartmann, Georg, 75pp Philosophisch-Anthroposophischer Verlag 1971 Dornach
  • The Faithful Thinker Harwood, Alfred Cecil, Rudolf Steiner Press 1961 London
  • At the Dawn of a New Age: Memoirs of a Scientist Hauschka, Rudolf, 104pp, Anthroposophic Pr. Hudson NY 19__, ISBN 0-91924-25-5 Paper
  • Rudolf Steiner Hemleben, Johannes, Henry Goulden, East Grinsted ISBN 0-904822-02-8 Cloth ISBN 0-904822-03-6 Paper
  • Private Schools and the Hidden Curriculum Henry, Mary Elisabeth, Dissertation, 1990, U. of Virginia
  • Time of Decision with Rudolf Steiner Hiebel, Friedrich, 300pp approx. Anthoposophic Pr. 1989 Hudson NY ISBN 0-88010-274-8 Paper
  • The Occult Conspiracy Howard, Michael, Destiny Books/Harper and Row
  • A Study of the Relationship between Years in the Integrative, Creative, and Artistic Waldorf Education and Self-Actualization Huchingson, June Mary, Dissertation, 1990, Wayne State U.
  • A Comparitive Study between Behaviour of Students in a Public School Program for the Gifted and those in Waldorf Schools in Terms of Renzulli's "Gifted Behaviours" Huchingson, Robert III, Dissertation 1990 Wayne State U.
  • Rudolf Steiner's Mission and Ita Wegman Kirchner-Bockholt, M. and F., Rudolf Steiner Press London c.1985
  • Rudolf Steiner's Calendar of the Soul: A Commentary Koenig, Karl, 86pp Rudolf Steiner Press 19__, London ISBN 85440-314-0
  • Klingborg, Arne, See: Biesantz
  • God Is My Adventure Landau, Rom, 306pp One chapter is on Steiner. Faber and Faber 1939 London
  • Mystery Streams in Europe and the New Mysteries Lievegoed, Bernard, 86pp Anthroposoophic Press 1982 ISBN 0-88010-002-8
  • Rudolf Steiner: Life, Work, Inner Path, Social Initiatives Lissau, Rudi, 192pp Hawthorn Press 1990 ISBN 1-869890-06-X
  • An Exploration of Waldorf Education Principles in a Public School Bilingual Program for Gifted Students Lozoraitis, Jean P., Dissertation, 1992, U. of Mass.
  • A Examination of the Idea of the Threefold Social Order Mansfield, P., BSc dissertation, 1978, U. Bath
  • Rudolf Steiner: An Intellectual Biography Marcum, Ursula, Dissertation, 1989, U. of Calif., Riverside
  • Education for Wholeness: The Visions of Human Becoming and of Education of Rudolf Steiner, Aurobindo Ghose, and Inayat Khan Marshak, David, Dissertation, 1985, Harvard U.
  • The Essential Steiner McDermott, Robert, 450pp Harper and Row 1984 ISBN 0-06-065345-0
  • Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf Education Mitchell, David, 25pp Rudolf Steiner College Press 19__,
  • Rudolf Steiner's Vision of Love: Spiritual Science and the Logic of the Heart Nesfield-Cookson, Bernard, 352pp Aquarian Press Wellingborough Northamptonshire 1989
  • A Cross-Cultural Exploratory Study of the Creativeness of Steiner and State Pupils in England, Scotland, and Germany Ogletree, Earl J., Dissertation, 1967, Wayne State U.
  • Rudolf Steiner on his Book "The Philosophy of Freedom" Palmer, Otto,
  • Memories of Rudolf Steiner Polzer-Hoditz, Ludwig Graf, 84pp Rudolf Steiner College Press
  • Rudolf Steiner and the Founding of the New Mysteries Prokofieff, Sergei Rudolf Steiner Press 1986 London ISBN 0-85440-696-4 ISBN 0-88010-215-2
  • Working Together on Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas Pusch, Hans, 144pp Anthroposophic Press, 19__, ISBN 0-91014-291-2 290-4
  • Rudolf Steiner Enters My Life Rittelmeyer, F, 150pp Floris Press, 19__, ISBN 0-903540-55-X
  • Memories of Rudolf Steiner Samweber, Anna, 51pp Rudolf Steiner Press 1991 ISBN 1-85540-100-2 Paper
  • Origin and Aims of German Expressionist Architecture: An Essay into the Expressionist Frame of Mind in Germany Especially as Typified in the Works of Rudolf Steiner Santomasso, Eugene, Dissertation, 1973, Columbia U.
  • Rudolf Steiner and Initiation Schiller, Paul Eugen, Anthroposophic Pr. Hudson NY 1981 ISBN 0-91014-296-3 Paper
  • Reminiscences of Rudolf Steiner and Marie Steiner von Sievers Schubert, Ilona, 96pp Temple Lodge Press London 1991 ISBN 0-904693-31-7 Paper
  • Scientist of the Invisible Shepherd, A. P., 222 pp. Hodder and Stoughton 1954 London Inner Tradit./Harper and Row 1983 ISBN 0-89281-174-9 Paper
  • Theory and Practice of Dr. Rudolf Steiner's Pedagogy, Siegmeister, Walter, Dissertation, 1932, NYU
  • Meetings with Rudolf Steiner, Steffen, Albert, 344pp. Adonis Press 1961 Ghent NY
  • Reminiscences of Life... Stein, W., 60pp
  • Rudolf Steiner's Life and Work Stein, Walter J., 33pp St. George/Rudolf Steiner College Press 1987
  • The Educational Innovators One section is on Steiner. Stewart, W. A. C., St. Martin's Press 1967 New York
  • Waldorf Schools Marching Quietly Unheard Uhrmacher, P. Bruce, Dissertation, 1991, Stanford U.
  • Rudolf Steiner's Theosophy Unger, Carl, 79pp Rudolf Steiner Press London
  • The Bodhisattva Question, Krishnamurti, Rudolf Steiner, Annie Besant, Valentin Tomberg, and the Mystery of the Twentieth Century Master Vreede, Elizabeth and T. H. Meyer, Temple Lodge Publ., London, 1993
  • The Life and Work of Rudolf Steiner Wachsmuth, Guenther, 594 pp. Whittier Books 1955 New York
  • Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Thought Wannamaker, Olin D., 30pp Anthroposophic Press 1958
  • The Mysteries: Rudolf Steiner's Writings on Spiritual Initiation Welburn, Andrew, Floris Books, 208 pp., ISBN 0-86315-243-0 Hard
  • Rudolf Steiner: Aspects of His Spiritual World View, Anthroposophy Wilkinson, Roy, Temple Lodge Publ., London, 1993 Vol. 1, 96 pp., ISBN 0-904693-47-3 Vol. 2, 96 pp., ISBN 0-904693-51-1 Vol. 3, 96 pp., ISBN 0-904693-63-5
  • Rudolf Steiner on Education, A Compendium Wilkinson, Roy, 168 pp., Hawthorn Press 1994 ISBN 1-869890-51-5 Paper
  • Rudolf Steiner: the Man and his Message Wilson, Colin, Wellingsborough UK 1985
  • Rudolf Steiner's Philosophy in the Context of the Development of Western Thought Winship, Michael, unpublished ms.
  • Rudolf Steiner: A Seeker in Pursuit of Truth and Self-Knowledge Yulish, Stephen Malcolm, Master's thesis, College of Education, Thesis, 1972, U. of Illinois, Urbana
  • Scientific Discovery on Formal Operational Tasks: A Study of the Relationship between Scientific Thinking and the Discovery of Scientific Concepts by High School Students Zachos, Paul, Dissertation, 1991, SUNY