27. Curriculum Vitae

Rudolf Steiner, born at Kraljevec in Hungary on February 27, 1861, responsible for Geras in Lower Austria, studied at the Landes-Mittelschule in Wiener Neustadt and then attended the philosophical lectures at the University of Vienna, the natural science, mechanical and machine-technical lectures at the technical college from 1879-1883, earned his doctorate with a treatise on “the basic principles of epistemology”, and then worked on the publication of Goethe's natural science writings, for “Kür Kürschners Deutsche National-Litteratur» (Kürschner's German National Literature), wrote: “Erkenntnistheorie der Goethe'schen Weltanschauung” (1886), “Goethe als Vater einer neuen Ästhetik” (1889), “Wahrheit und Wissenschaft” (1892). During the period from July 24 to August 17, 1889, and from September 30, 1890, until this time, he was engaged in the Goethe Archive editing Goethe's morphological, geological and general scientific works.

In the winter of 1891-92, Steiner gave a lecture at the Vienna Goethe Society: “On the Mystery in Goethe's Enigmatic Fairy Tales (in the Emigrations)” and in Weimar two lectures: 1. “The Imagination as a Product of Nature and as a Creator of Culture”, 2. “Weimar at the Center of German Intellectual Life.