GA 272 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Geisteswissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zu Goethes «Faust»

Faust, the Striving Human Being

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

German units missingGerman source unrecordedmachine translation

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-2720-5 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2720-6 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
4	1981	346	the publisher's online catalog
	1981		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

17 units in the printed table of contents, about 99,182 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1967.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
VORWORT von Marie Steiner			apparatus	2001
GOETHES «FAUST» VOM GEISTESWISSENSCHAFTLICHEN STANDPUNKT Öffentlicher Vortrag, Straßburg, 23. Januar 1910	1910-01-23	Straßburg	lecture	8050
DAS VERHALTNIS DES GOETHESCHEN «FAUST» ZU GOETHE Berlin, 17. Dezember 1911	1911-12-17	Berlin	lecture	5140
DAS RINGEN FAUSTS NACH DEM CHRISTDURCHTRÄNKTEN QUELL DES LEBENS Dornach, 4. April 1915	1915-04-04	Dornach	lecture	5426
DAS EINDRINGEN FAUSTS IN DIE GEISTIGE WELT Dornach, 11.April 1915,	1915-04-11	Dornach	lecture	7445
PFINGSTSTIMMUNG FAUSTS INITIATION MIT DEN GEISTERN DER ERDE Dornach, 22. Mai 1915	1915-05-22	Dornach	lecture	6759
«FAUST», DIE GRUSSTE STREBENSDICHTUNG DER WELT DIE KLASSISCHE PHANTASMAGORIE Dornach, 30. Mai 1915	1915-05-30	Dornach	lecture	7586
FAUSTS HIMMELFAHRT Dornach, 14. August 1915	1915-08-14	Dornach	lecture	3539
MYSTISCHE ERKENNTNIS UND GEISTIGE OFFENBARUNG DER NATUR WAHRNEHMUNG DER GEISTER Dornach, 15. August 1915	1915-08-15	Dornach	lecture	6186
DAS REICH DER MÜTTER. DIE MATER GLORIOSA Dornach, 16. August 1915	1915-08-16	Dornach	lecture	5504
WEISHEIT - SCHÖNHEIT - GÜTE MICHAEL - GABRIEL - RAPHAEL Dornach, 19. August 1916	1916-08-19	Dornach	lecture	6606
DIE HISTORISCHE BEDEUTUNG DES «FAUST» Dornach, 20. August 1916	1916-08-20	Dornach	lecture	5945
DIE «GRABLEGUNG» DAS WESEN DER LEMUREN, DER DICK- UND DURRTEUFEL Dornach, 4. September 1916	1916-09-04	Dornach	lecture	6321
GOETHES EINBLICKE [N DIE GEHEIMNISSE DES MENSCHLICHEN DASEINS Dornach,, 9. September 1916	1916-09-09	Dornach	lecture	5392
AUSBLICKE IN DIE VON GOETHE GESUCHTEN WAHREN WIRKLICHKEITEN Dornach, 10. September 1916	1916-09-10	Dornach	lecture	7615
GOETHES AUFSUCHEN DER TIEFEN DES WERDENS UND DER WELTGEHEIMNISSE IN SEINEM ember 1916			text	7717
HINWEISE			apparatus	1950

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	15 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	15 the site's completeness audit
Words served	95203 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA272/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1967 the source record of the served German

Printed units not served in German

Unit	Date	Why
DAS VERHALTNIS DES GOETHESCHEN «FAUST» ZU GOETHE Berlin, 17. Dezember 1911	1911-12-17	outside_window

English

Served on this site

Faust, the Striving Human Being the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page SOL2024

Publisher	Steiner Online Library the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	2024
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
How made	machine translation with review (DeepL), Steiner Online Library the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations
Rights	in copyright

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
Anthroposophy in the Light of Goethe's Faust: Writings and Lectures from Mid-1890s to 1916 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW Witnesses differ: 272 the SteinerBooks catalog 65 AnthroWiki (English)	Burley Channer AnthroWiki (English)	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	2014	9780880106399	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	18	12, 3, 3	953	4, 58

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	5 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	9 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

1 printed unit is not served in German. the site's completeness audit
The served German came from the archive's German pages; no edition or fetch date was recorded. the source record of the served German
Part or all of the served English is the Steiner Online Library's machine translation (DeepL with review), in copyright. the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations

Gaps

DAS VERHALTNIS DES GOETHESCHEN «FAUST» ZU GOETHE Berlin, 17. Dezember 1911 (1911-12-17): outside_window the site's completeness audit

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Geisteswissenschaftliche Erläuterungen zu Goethes «Faust» (GA 272), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/272/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/272/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions SOL2024.

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Witnesses

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AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_272
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_272 · 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
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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)
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the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 ab042b95cfcf24cc
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA272/English/SOL2024/
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
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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
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