GA 27 · Writings

Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen (1925)

Fundamentals of Therapy

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

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0270-9 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-7010-3 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-0272-2 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-7011-0 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
8	2014	154	the publisher's online catalog
	1991		AnthroWiki (German)
	2014		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

22 units in the printed table of contents, about 29,011 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1953.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
Vorwort zur ersten Auflage	text	690
I. Wahre Menschenwesen-Erkenntnis als Grundlage medizinischer Kunst	text	2888
II. Warum erkrankt der Mensch??	text	1145
III. Die Erscheinungen des Lebens	text	1148
IV. Von dem Wesen des empfindenden	text	1167
V. Pflanze, Tier, Mensch	text	1127
VI. Blut und Nerv	text	1017
VII. Das Wesen der Heilwirkungen	text	923
VIII. Tätigkeiten im menschlichen Organismus. Diabetes mellitus	text	1157
IX. Die Rolle des Eiweißes im Menschenkörper und die Albuminurie	text	852
X. Die Rolle des Fettes im menschlichen Organismus und die trügerischen lokalen Symptomenkomplexe	text	767
XI. Die Gestaltung des menschlichen Körpers	text	851
XII. Aufbau und Absonderung des menschlichen Organismus	text	1105
XIII. Vom Wesen des Krankseins und der Heilung	text	1069
XIV. Von der therapeutischen Denkweise	text	988
XV. Das Heilverfahren	text	892
XVI. Heilmittel-Erkenntnis	text	1111
XVII. Substanz-Erkenntnis als Grundlage der Heilmittel-Erkenntnis	text	937
XVIII. Heil-Eurhythmie	text	626
XIX. Charakteristisehe Krankheitsfälle	text	6478
XX. Typische Heilmittel	text	1956
Nachwort	text	117

German text

Served. Taken from the Rudolf Steiner Archive's German pages, with units added by this site from a scan or digital edition of the print, recorded below.

Units served	22 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	22 the site's completeness audit
Words served	28646 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.99 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA027/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1953 the source record of the served German
Method	digital edition (EPUB)
Added	2026-10-18
Checksum	`sha256 e56fc69779e3c466`

English

Served on this site

Witnesses differ:
Fundamentals of Therapy (1983) the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983)
Fundamentals of Therapy. An Extension of the Art of Healing through Spiritual Knowledge AnthroWiki (English)
RSP1983

Translator	Witnesses differ: E. A. Frommer and J. Josephson the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983) E. A. Frommer and J. M. Josephson AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Press the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983); AnthroWiki (English)
Place	London the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983)
Years	1983
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983)
ISBN	0-85440-423-6 AnthroWiki (English)

As the witnesses print it

Fundamentals of Therapy (1983), Fundamentals of Therapy , the edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983)
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner)/[Ita Wegman](Ita_Wegman): *Fundamentals of Therapy. An Extension of the Art of Healing through Spiritual Knowledge*. Translated by E. A. Frommer and J. M. Josephson. Rudolf Steiner Press 1983, ISBN 0-85440-423-6 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0027/English/RSP1983/GA027_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

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
Fundamentals of Therapy: Laying the Foundation for an Expansion of the Art of Healing in accordance with Spiritual-Scientific Insights the SteinerBooks catalog CW 27 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Christina van Tellingen, Ita Wegman, Ricardo Bartelme	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2026	9781621484387	in copyright
Fundamentals of Therapy AnthroWiki (English)		Kessinger Publishing AnthroWiki (English)	2010	978-1162594668

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
RSP1983	23	1, 17, 5	133	0, 0

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	0 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

The German and English units use different keys; gaps between them are not asserted. the site's completeness audit

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Grundlegendes für eine Erweiterung der Heilkunst nach geisteswissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen (1925) (GA 27), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/27/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/27/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSP1983.

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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_27
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_27 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English 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 edition's imprint line (GA027/RSP1983): data/steiner-ga/data/GA027/RSP1983/00_toc.md · sha256 3594fde6ee6dac75
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 e56fc69779e3c466
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA027/ · sha256 aa3758d5dbe2e215
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
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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