GA 196 · Lectures

Geistige und soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsentwickelung

Spiritual and Social Transformations in Human Evolution

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

German source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	978-3-7274-1960-7 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-7520-7 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1992	344	the publisher's online catalog
	1992		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

22 units in the printed table of contents, about 112,037 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1992.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. Januar 1920	1920-01-09	Dornach	lecture	4503
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 10. Januar 1920	1920-01-10	Dornach	lecture	4785
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 11. Januar 1920	1920-01-11	Dornach	lecture	5682
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. Januar 1920	1920-01-16	Dornach	lecture	5414
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. Januar 1920	1920-01-17	Dornach	lecture	6196
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 18. Januar 1920	1920-01-18	Dornach	lecture	5825
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. Januar 1920	1920-01-30	Dornach	lecture	4897
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 31. Januar 1920	1920-01-31	Dornach	lecture	5251
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. Februar 1920	1920-02-01	Dornach	lecture	5327
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 6. Februar 1920	1920-02-06	Dornach	lecture	5356
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 7. Februar 1920	1920-02-07	Dornach	lecture	4477
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. Februar 1920	1920-02-08	Dornach	lecture	5342
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13. Februar 1920	1920-02-13	Dornach	lecture	5054
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. Februar 1920	1920-02-14	Dornach	lecture	5338
FÜNFZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15. Februar 1920	1920-02-15	Dornach	lecture	4921
SECHZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. Februar 1920	1920-02-20	Dornach	lecture	5482
SIEBZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. Februar 1920	1920-02-21	Dornach	lecture	5159
ACHTZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. Februar 1920	1920-02-22	Dornach	lecture	6539
HINWEISE			apparatus	11629
TEXTÄNDERUNGEN			text	867
NAMENREGISTER			apparatus	510
AUSFÜHRLICHE INHALTSANGABEN			apparatus	3483

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	18 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	19 the site's completeness audit
Words served	94183 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.98 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1992 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The History and Actuality of Imperialism the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page SCR2011

Translator	Frank Thomas Smith the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	2011
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

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
Spiritual and Social Changes in the Development of Humanity the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
What Is Necessary in these Urgent Times the SteinerBooks catalog CW 196 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Christopher Bamford, Rory Bradley	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	2010	9780880106313	in copyright
The Education of the Child the SteinerBooks catalog CW 196 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Christopher Bamford, Mary Adams, Nancy Parsons Whittaker, Robert F. Lathe	SteinerBooks the SteinerBooks catalog	1996	9780880109130	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	18	15, 1, 2	457	1, 5

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	59 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	4 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	18 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

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, Geistige und soziale Wandlungen in der Menschheitsentwickelung (GA 196), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/196/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/196/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions SCR2011.

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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_196
AnthroWiki's 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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 b41e10e82cef49d1
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA196/English/SCR2011/HisImp_index.html
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/ (the master table)
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04
the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations: https://rsarchive.org/blog/Translation2024.html · 2024-08-01, clarification 2025-03-18
the library's own account of its translation process
the SteinerBooks catalog: SteinerBooks catalog (Shopify products), fetched 2026-04
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/steinerbooks_cw.json

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