GA 191 · Lectures

Soziales Verständnis aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis

Social Understanding Based on Insights from Spiritual Science

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	978-3-7274-1910-2 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1989	304	the publisher's online catalog
	1989		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

16 units in the printed table of contents, about 87,692 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1972.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 3. Oktober 1919	1919-10-03	Dornach	lecture	5548
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 4. Oktober 1919	1919-10-04	Dornach	lecture	5712
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Oktober 1919	1919-10-05	Dornach	lecture	6249
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Oktober 1919	1919-10-10	Dornach	lecture	6824
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 11. Oktober 1919	1919-10-11	Dornach	lecture	3705
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. Oktober 1919	1919-10-12	Dornach	lecture	6925
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. Oktober 1919	1919-10-17	Dornach	lecture	5422
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 18. Oktober 1919	1919-10-18	Dornach	lecture	6638
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 19. Oktober 1919	1919-10-19	Dornach	lecture	4706
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 23. Oktober 1919	1919-10-23	Dornach	lecture	4313
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. November 1919	1919-11-01	Dornach	lecture	5483
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. November 1919	1919-11-02	Dornach	lecture	4574
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. November 1919	1919-11-09	Dornach	lecture	6722
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. November 1919	1919-11-14	Dornach	lecture	6494
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. November 1919	1919-11-15	Dornach	lecture	5091
HINWEISE			apparatus	3286

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	19 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	15 the site's completeness audit
Words served	106834 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.27 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1972 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page AP1993

Translator	D. S. Osmond the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1993
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
Cosmogony, Freedom, Altruism the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table LA1963			1963
Lucifer and Ahriman the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SBC1976	D. S. Osmond Lecture I the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table		1976
Social Understanding from a Spiritual-Scientific Perspective the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman the SteinerBooks catalog CW 191 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Dorothy S. Osmond, Thomas Poplawski	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1976	9780880103756	in copyright
Understanding Society through Spiritual-Scientific Knowledge the SteinerBooks catalog CW 191 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Matthew Barton	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2017	9781855845428	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	19	10, 8, 1	522	13, 7

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	21 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	26 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	17 plates the site's blackboard index

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, Soziales Verständnis aus geisteswissenschaftlicher Erkenntnis (GA 191), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/191/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/191/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions AP1993.

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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_191
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 225c8b08ca7390ba
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA191/English/AP1993/InLuAr_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 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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