Peter Selg

Peter Selg (b. 1963) is a German anthroposophical physician, biographer, and one of the most prolific contemporary writers in the anthroposophical movement. Born in Stuttgart, he studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin, and worked as head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department at Herdecke hospital until 2000.

Selg is the founding director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy in Arlesheim, Switzerland — the institute he established to advance scholarly research into the lives, work, and questions of the anthroposophical movement’s central figures. He is also professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany), and since April 2020 has served as co-leader of the General Anthroposophical Section at the Goetheanum.

Selg’s bibliography is vast — well over a hundred titles — and includes a comprehensive seven-volume biography of Rudolf Steiner, multiple studies of Ita Wegman, Karl König, and Marie Steiner, and major works on Christology, anthroposophical medicine, medical ethics, and the social and ethical questions of our time. His writing is marked by deep historical research, careful documentary work, and a quiet confidence in the spiritual realities he addresses.