GA 353 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Die Geschichte der Menschheit und die Weltanschauungen der Kulturvölker

Human History and the World Views of Civilized Nations

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	3-7274-3532-1 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-3533-1 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-3532-1 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Witness
3		the publisher's online catalog
	1988	AnthroWiki (German)
	2018	AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

19 units in the printed table of contents, about 103,120 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1968.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
GELEITWORT August 1922 bis September 1924			apparatus	450
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. März 1924	1924-03-01	Dornach	lecture	5635
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. März 1924	1924-03-05	Dornach	lecture	6332
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. März 1924	1924-03-08	Dornach	lecture	6857
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. März 1924	1924-03-12	Dornach	lecture	5676
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. März 1924	1924-03-15	Dornach	lecture	5964
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 19. März 1924	1924-03-19	Dornach	lecture	5540
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 26. März 1924	1924-03-26	Dornach	lecture	4543
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 12. April 1924	1924-04-12	Dornach	lecture	5911
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 26. April 1924	1924-04-26	Dornach	lecture	5827
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Mai 1924	1924-05-05	Dornach	lecture	6395
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. Mai 1924	1924-05-08	Dornach	lecture	6299
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Mai 1924	1924-05-10	Dornach	lecture	5833
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. Mai 1924	1924-05-14	Dornach	lecture	6250
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. Mai 1924	1924-05-17	Dornach	lecture	5995
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. Mai 1924	1924-05-20	Dornach	lecture	6036
SECHZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 4. Juni 1924	1924-06-04	Dornach	lecture	5870
SIEBZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 25. Juni 1924	1924-06-25	Dornach	lecture	6803
HINWEISE			apparatus	904

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	17 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	17 the site's completeness audit
Words served	102620 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.01 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA353/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1968 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Star Wisdom, Moon Religion, Sun Religion the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page RSPC1950

Translator	Dorothy S. Osmond the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Co. the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1950
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
Human History and the World Views of Civilized Nations the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
From Beetroot to Buddhism: Answers to Questions the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 353 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	contributors: Anna R. Meuss, Sevak Gulbekian	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	1999	9781855840621	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	17	15, 2, 0	732	0, 1

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	6 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	2 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	25 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 Geschichte der Menschheit und die Weltanschauungen der Kulturvölker (GA 353), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/353/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/353/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions RSPC1950.

BibTeX · CSL-JSON · the full record

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_353
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_353 · 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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 4a73a79b344c7f04
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA353/English/RSPC1950/StaWis_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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