GA 170 · Lectures

Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte

The Riddle of Man

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-1700-9 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1992	296	the publisher's online catalog
	1992		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

20 units in the printed table of contents the printed table of contents.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind
ERSTER VORTRAG, Domach 29. Juli 1916	1916-07-29	Domach	lecture
ZWEITER VORTRAG, 30. Juli 1916	1916-07-30		lecture
DRITTER VORTRAG, 31. Juli 1916	1916-07-31		lecture
VIERTER VORTRAG, 5. August 1916	1916-08-05		lecture
FüNFTER VORTRAG, 6. August 1916	1916-08-06		lecture
SECHSTER VORTRAG, 7. August 1916	1916-08-07		lecture
SIEBENTER VORTRAG, 12. August 1916	1916-08-12		lecture
ACHTER VORTRAG, 13. August 1916	1916-08-13		lecture
NEUNTER VORTRAG, 15. August 1916	1916-08-15		lecture
ZEHNTER VORTRAG, 21. August 1916	1916-08-21		lecture
ELFTER VORTRAG, 26. August 1916	1916-08-26		lecture
ZWöLFTER VORTRAG, 27. August 1916	1916-08-27		lecture
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG, 28. August 1916	1916-08-28		lecture
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG, 2. September 1916	1916-09-02		lecture
FüNFZEHNTER VORTRAG, 3. September 1916	1916-09-03		lecture
Zu dieser Ausgabe			apparatus
Hinweise zum Text			apparatus
Namenregister			apparatus
Rudolf Steiner über die Vortragsnachschriften			apparatus
Übersicht über die Rudolf Steiner Gesamtausgabe	1916-07-29	Dornach	lecture

German text

Served. Taken from the German pages of the Rudolf Steiner Archive (rsarchive.org); the edition and the date of retrieval were not recorded.

Units served	20 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	16 the site's completeness audit
Words served	111286 the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026

English

Served on this site

Memory and Habit the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1948

Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1948
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
The Riddle of Humanity the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table RSP1990			1990
The Riddle of Humanity the SteinerBooks catalog CW 170 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: J. F. Logan, Margaret Jonas	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2026	9781855846784	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	20	3, 10, 7	375	5, 16

A unit is a lecture or chapter; a paragraph pair maps German paragraphs to the English ones that render them. A gap is a German paragraph with no English counterpart, or the reverse. the site's alignment tables

Pictures

Image files served	21 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Das Rätsel des Menschen. Die geistigen Hintergründe der menschlichen Geschichte (GA 170), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/170/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/170/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions APC1948.

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Witnesses

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the site's alignment tables: ~/data/build/search-2026-10-21b.db · sha256 01257d325bec9eef
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_170
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
the site's blackboard index: site/api/blackboard.json · 2026-10-21T23:20:03Z
the site's GA catalog: data/steiner/ga_catalog.yaml
the publisher's online catalog: the publisher's GA-Online title list, read 2026-10-19; metadata only
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_online_2026-10-19.json
the source record of the served German: data/steiner/witnesses/german_sources.json
the publisher's catalog of 2022: Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Gesamtverzeichnis 2022 (the publisher's catalog)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsv_gv_2022_entries.json
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 35219f25759c44b8
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA170/English/APC1948/MemHab_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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