Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
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GA 61 · Lectures
Menschengeschichte im Lichte der Geistesforschung (1911/12)
Human History in the Light of Spiritual Investigation
translation not identifiedGerman source unrecorded
Publication
| Status in the catalog | published the site's GA catalog |
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| Kind | text the site's GA catalog |
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Editions of the German volume
| Edition | Year | Pages | Witness |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1983 | 546 | the publisher's online catalog |
| 1983 | AnthroWiki (German) |
Printed contents
17 units in the printed table of contents, about 138,876 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1962.
The units as printed
| Heading | Date | Place | Kind | Words |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DER MENSCH IN SEINEM VERHÄLTNIS ZU DEN ÜBERSINNLICHEN WELTEN Berlin, 19. Oktober 1911 | 1911-10-19 | Berlin | lecture | 7086 |
| TOD UND UNSTERBLICHKEIT IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 26. Oktober 1911 | 1911-10-26 | Berlin | lecture | 7278 |
| DER SINN DES PROPHETENTUMS Berlin, 9. November 1911 | 1911-11-09 | Berlin | lecture | 9897 |
| VON PARACELSUS ZU GOETHE Berlin, 16. November 1911 | 1911-11-16 | Berlin | lecture | 7517 |
| DIE VERBORGENEN TIEFEN DES SEELENLEBENS Berlin, 23. November 1911 | 1911-11-23 | Berlin | lecture | 10439 |
| DAS GLÜCK, SEIN WESEN UND SEIN SCHEIN Berlin, 7. Dezember 1911 | 1911-12-07 | Berlin | lecture | 8657 |
| DER PROPHET ELIAS IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 14. Dezember 1911 | 1911-12-14 | Berlin | lecture | 7884 |
| DER URSPRUNG DES MENSCHEN IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 4. Januar 1912 | 1912-01-04 | Berlin | lecture | 8274 |
| DER URSPRUNG DER TIERWELT IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 18. Januar 1912 | 1912-01-18 | Berlin | lecture | 8403 |
| CHRISTUS UND DAS ZWANZIGSTE JAHRHUNDERT Berlin, 25. Januar 1912 | 1912-01-25 | Berlin | lecture | 8142 |
| MENSCHENGESCHICHTE, GEGENWART UND ZUKUNFT IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 1. Februar 1912 | 1912-02-01 | Berlin | lecture | 8537 |
| KOPERNIKUS UND SEINE ZEIT Berlin, 15. Februar 1912 | 1912-02-15 | Berlin | lecture | 8777 |
| DER TOD BEI MENSCH, TIER UND PFLANZE Berlin, 29. Februar 1912 | 1912-02-29 | Berlin | lecture | 9760 |
| DIE SELBSTERZIEHUNG DES MENSCHEN IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 14. März 1912 | 1912-03-14 | Berlin | lecture | 8636 |
| DAS WESEN DER EWIGKEIT UND DIE NATUR DER MENSCHENSEELE IM LICHTE DER GEISTESWISSENSCHAFT Berlin, 21. März 1912 | 1912-03-21 | Berlin | lecture | 8863 |
| DARWIN UND DIE ÜBERSINNLICHE FORSCHUNG Berlin, 28. März 1912 | 1912-03-28 | Berlin | lecture | 9004 |
| HINWEISE | apparatus | 1722 |
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 | 16 the site's completeness audit |
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| Printed units of text | 16 the site's completeness audit |
| Words served | 138242 the site's completeness audit |
| Served against the print | 1.01 (comparable) the site's completeness audit |
| Source | https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA061/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026 |
| Edition used | 1962 the source record of the served German |
English
Served on this site
Alignment of German and English
| Edition | Units | Confidence (high, medium, low) | Paragraph pairs | Gaps (German, English) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English | 16 | 13, 1, 2 | 456 | 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 | 0 the site's completeness audit |
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| Image files served | 0 the site's completeness audit |
Quality marks
- The served English translation is not identified: no edition or translator is on record. 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
Gaps
None recorded.
How to cite this witness
Rudolf Steiner, Menschengeschichte im Lichte der Geistesforschung (1911/12) (GA 61), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/61/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/61/, status as of 2026-10-21: German served; English editions English.
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_61
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 9b70d4a38ca7986f - the edition code
- data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
- the site's completeness audit
- research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-10-21
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