Michaela Glöckler

Michaela Glöckler is a German anthroposophical pediatrician whose life’s work has shaped contemporary anthroposophical medicine, child development, and Waldorf school health practice. A Waldorf student herself in Stuttgart, she studied German language, literature, and history at Freiburg and Heidelberg before pursuing medicine at Tübingen and Marburg, with pediatric training at the community hospital in Herdecke and at the Bochum University Pediatric Clinic.

Until 1988 she practiced in the children’s outpatient clinic at Herdecke and served as school physician for the Rudolf Steiner School in Witten. From 1988 to 2016 — twenty-eight years — she served as Head of the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, the anthroposophical School of Spiritual Science. She remains an Emeritus of the Section, and currently chairs the ELIANT Alliance, an international network protecting cultural diversity and anthroposophically-rooted approaches in medicine, education, agriculture, and social life.

Her bibliography is internationally translated. She is best known as co-author, with Wolfgang Goebel, of A Guide to Child Health — the foundational reference for Waldorf parenting and anthroposophical pediatrics, now in its expanded edition as A Waldorf Guide to Children’s Health (with Karin Michael). Her What Is Anthroposophic Medicine? offers an accessible introduction to the field for clinicians and patients alike. Her writing brings clinical experience and spiritual insight into living dialogue.