GA 16 · Writings

Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen (1912)

A Road to Self-Knowledge

German: Served English: served Read on this site Record (JSON)

English units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-0160-5 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-6021-0 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-0162-6 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
9	2014	114	the publisher's online catalog
	2004		AnthroWiki (German)
	2014		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

10 units in the printed table of contents, about 20,248 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1956.

The units as printed

Heading	Kind	Words
EINLEITENDE BEMERKUNGEN	text	492
ERSTE MEDITATION	text	2740
ZWEITE MEDITATION	text	2008
DRITTE MEDITATION	text	2317
VIERTE MEDITATION	text	2394
FÜNFTE MEDITATION	text	1673
SECHSTE MEDITATION	text	2682
SIEBENTE MEDITATION	text	2893
ACHTE MEDITATION	text	1562
NACHWORT ZUR NEUAUFLAGE	text	1487

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	10 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	10 the site's completeness audit
Words served	20334 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA016/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1956 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

A Road to Self Knowledge the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English) AP1956

Translator	M. Cotterell the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Publisher	Anthroposophical Publishing Co. the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page; AnthroWiki (English)
Place	London the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Years	1956, 1975
Pages	86 the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Translated from	translated from the German the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956); the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
Identified	by the edition's folder name in the source archive the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page

As the witnesses print it

A Road to Self Knowledge, Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London, 1956, 1975, 86 pp., translated from the German by M. Cotterell the edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956)
Anthroposophical Publishing Co., London, 1956, 1975, 86 pp., translated from the German by M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page
• [Rudolf Steiner](Rudolf_Steiner): *A Road to Self-Knowledge*. Translation by M. Cotterell. Anthroposophical Publishing Company, London 1956 [rsarchive.org](https://wn.rsarchive.org/GA/GA0016/English/AP1956/GA016_index.html) AnthroWiki (English)

1 German unit of this volume has no English on this site: Nachwort zur Neuauflage [1918].

Other English translations known

Listed as bibliography. They are not served here; a translation in copyright is named, never reproduced.

Title	Translator	Publisher	Year	ISBN	Rights
A Path to Self-knowledge the SteinerBooks catalog CW 16 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Julia Selg, Thomas O'Keefe	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2019	9781732461376	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
AP1956	9	0, 4, 5	15	0, 0

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
Image files served	0 the site's completeness audit

Quality marks

1 German unit has no English. 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, Ein Weg zur Selbsterkenntnis des Menschen (1912) (GA 16), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/16/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/16/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions AP1956.

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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-2026-11-02a.db · sha256 8a3bf2fb68616955
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/alignment_summary.json
AnthroWiki (German): https://anthrowiki.at/GA_16
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_16 · read 2026-04-26T16:15:20.422803+00:00
AnthroWiki's English 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 edition's imprint line (GA016/AP1956): data/steiner-ga/data/GA016/AP1956/00_toc.md · sha256 1b2d9093f7b3d5c7
the printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 cb497cfe36f2b81e
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's index page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Books/GA016/ · sha256 26c7962f88514530
the archive's index page for the volume (cached June 2026)
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

status as of 2026-11-04 · all volumes