Historical Necessity and Freewill the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page ANS1934
| Years | 1934 |
|---|---|
| Identified | by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page |
GA 179 · Lectures
Geschichtliche Notwendigkeit und Freiheit. Schicksalseinwirkungen aus der Welt der Toten
Historical Necessity and Freedom; The Influence of Fate from the World of the Dead
German source unrecorded
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
|---|---|
| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
| ISBN |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 1993 | 184 | the publisher's online catalog |
| 1993 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
9 units in the printed table of contents, about 49,768 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1977.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-02 | Dornach | lecture | 8110 |
| ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-09 | Dornach | lecture | 6474 |
| DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-10 | Dornach | lecture | 5386 |
| VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 11. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-11 | Dornach | lecture | 5838 |
| FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach. 15. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-15 | Dornach | lecture | 4723 |
| SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-16 | Dornach | lecture | 5726 |
| SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. Dezember1917 | 1917-12-17 | Dornach | lecture | 7144 |
| ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. Dezember 1917 | 1917-12-22 | Dornach | lecture | 5572 |
| HINWEISE | apparatus | 795 |
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 | 8 the site's completeness audit |
|---|---|
| Printed units of text | 8 the site's completeness audit |
| Words served | 49077 the site's completeness audit |
| Served against the print | 1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit |
| Source | https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026 |
| Edition used | 1977 the source record of the served German |
English
Served on this site
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 Influence of the Dead on Destiny the SteinerBooks catalog CW 179 the SteinerBooks catalog | contributors: Christopher Bamford | SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog | 2007 | 9780880106146 | in copyright |
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 8 | 2, 5, 1 | 224 | 1, 4 |
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
| Printed in the volume | 12 the site's completeness audit |
|---|---|
| Image files served | 14 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, Geschichtliche Notwendigkeit und Freiheit. Schicksalseinwirkungen aus der Welt der Toten (GA 179), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/179/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/179/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions ANS1934.
Witnesses
Every fact on this page names the witness it comes from. Where witnesses disagree, the page shows each value; none is chosen silently.
- 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_179
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 d41834ed5a19b3a9 - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
- the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
- https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA179/English/ANS1934/HisNec_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
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
status as of · all volumes