GA 216 · Lectures

Die Grundimpulse des weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit

The Fundamental Impulses of Humanity's Development Throughout World History

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	978-3-7274-2160-0 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1988	168	the publisher's online catalog
	1988		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

9 units in the printed table of contents, about 41,594 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1965.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. September 1922	1922-09-16	Dornach	lecture	4599
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. September 1922	1922-09-17	Dornach	lecture	4945
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. September 1922	1922-09-22	Dornach	lecture	4295
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 23. September 1922	1922-09-23	Dornach	lecture	5340
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. September 1922	1922-09-24	Dornach	lecture	4962
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 29. September 1922	1922-09-29	Dornach	lecture	5279
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. September 1922	1922-09-30	Dornach	lecture	5488
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. Oktober 1922	1922-10-01	Dornach	lecture	5904
HINWEISE			apparatus	782

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	40755 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA216/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1965 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Supersensible Influences in the History of Mankind the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSPC1956

Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1956
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 Fundamental Impulses of Humanity's World-Historical Becoming the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Supersensible Impulses in the Historical Development of Humanity the SteinerBooks catalog CW 216 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Dale Brunsvold, Paul King	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2024	9781855846630	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	8	3, 4, 1	208	2, 6

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	16 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	40 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	10 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, Die Grundimpulse des weltgeschichtlichen Werdens der Menschheit (GA 216), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/216/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/216/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSPC1956.

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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_216
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 f5c703f4c5911bb4
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA216/English/RSPC1956/SupInf_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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