GA 183 · Lectures

Die Wissenschaft vom Werden des Menschen

The Science of Human Development

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	978-3-7274-1830-3 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1990	214	the publisher's online catalog
	1990		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

10 units in the printed table of contents, about 58,073 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1967.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. August 1918	1918-08-17	Dornach	lecture	6472
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 18. August 1918	1918-08-18	Dornach	lecture	4037
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 19. August 1918	1918-08-19	Dornach	lecture	4791
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. August 1918	1918-08-24	Dornach	lecture	4904
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 25. August 1918	1918-08-25	Dornach	lecture	6524
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 26. August 1918	1918-08-26	Dornach	lecture	7833
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 31. August 1918	1918-08-31	Dornach	lecture	7430
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. September 1918	1918-09-01	Dornach	lecture	4942
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. September 1918	1918-09-02	Dornach	lecture	9749
HINWEISE			apparatus	1391

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	9 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	9 the site's completeness audit
Words served	56761 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1967 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Mysteries of the Sun and of the Threefold Man the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page LRZ254

Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Edition	Not identified: the source archive merged this volume's English editions, and no edition or translator could be matched to the served text the site's completeness audit.

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
Occult Psychology the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table LRZ253
The Science of Human Development the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Human Evolution the SteinerBooks catalog CW 183 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Simon Blaxland-de Lange	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2015	9781855844056	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	9	7, 2, 0	303	5, 3

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	25 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	30 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, Die Wissenschaft vom Werden des Menschen (GA 183), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/183/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/183/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions LRZ254.

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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_183
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 4349c70dfa17a966
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA183/English/LRZ254/
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 Steiner Online Library's account of its translations: https://rsarchive.org/blog/Translation2024.html · 2024-08-01, clarification 2025-03-18
the library's own account of its translation process
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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