GA 213 · Lectures

Menschenfragen und Weltenantworten

Human Questions and Cosmic Answers

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	978-3-7274-2130-3 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
2	1987	264	the publisher's online catalog
	1987		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

14 units in the printed table of contents, about 72,567 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1969.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 24. Juni 1922	1922-06-24	Dornach	lecture	5367
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 25. Juni 1922	1922-06-25	Dornach	lecture	5728
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. Juni 1922	1922-06-30	Dornach	lecture	4460
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 1. Juli 1922	1922-07-01	Dornach	lecture	4331
FUNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. Juli 1922	1922-07-02	Dornach	lecture	5926
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 7. Juli 1922	1922-07-07	Dornach	lecture	6133
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 8. Juli 1922	1922-07-08	Dornach	lecture	5953
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. Juli 1922	1922-07-09	Dornach	lecture	6618
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. Juli 1922	1922-07-14	Dornach	lecture	5225
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 15.Juli 1922	1922-07-15	Dornach	lecture	4590
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. Juli 1922	1922-07-16	Dornach	lecture	4780
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. Juli 1922	1922-07-21	Dornach	lecture	5526
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 22. Juli 1922	1922-07-22	Dornach	lecture	6084
HINWEISE			apparatus	1846

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	13 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	13 the site's completeness audit
Words served	71025 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA213/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1969 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

Human Questions and Cosmic Answers the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page APC1960

Translator	Vera Compton-Burnett, Charles Davy, Dorothy S. Osmond and K. Wegener the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Publisher	Anthroposophic Press the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1960
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
Human Questions and World Answers the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
Human Questions and Cosmic Answers the SteinerBooks catalog CW 213 the SteinerBooks catalog	contributors: Elizabeth Marshall	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog	2025	9781855846685	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	13	7, 3, 3	395	2, 3

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	35 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	80 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	24 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, Menschenfragen und Weltenantworten (GA 213), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/213/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/213/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions APC1960.

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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_213
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 d419994ac9bab2c9
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA213/English/APC1960/HumCos_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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