Key Figures in the Movement

Key figures in the anthroposophical movement carried Rudolf Steiner’s impulses into medicine, education, agriculture, and the arts, and their biographies reveal how ideas become institutions. This collection of roughly 50 titles profiles the individuals whose work gave anthroposophy its practical forms after Steiner’s death in 1925.

Subjects include Ita Wegman, co-founder of anthroposophic medicine; Karl Konig, founder of the Camphill movement; Marie Steiner-von Sivers, who preserved Steiner’s literary estate; and Friedrich Rittelmeyer, founder of The Christian Community. Peter Selg and Sergei O. Prokofieff have written extensively on these personalities.

For biographies of Steiner himself, see Rudolf Steiner: Life & Work. These studies illuminate how individual initiative shaped a movement now encompassing over 1,200 Waldorf schools worldwide.