GA 258 · The Society and the School

Die Geschichte und die Bedingungen der anthroposophischen Bewegung im Verhältnis zur Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft

The History and Conditions of the Anthroposophical Movement in relation to the Anthroposophical Society.

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	3-7274-2580-6 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-2580-6 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3	1981	208	the publisher's online catalog
	1981		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

10 units in the printed table of contents, about 55,662 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1959.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Kind	Words
VORWORT ZUR ERSTEN AUFLAGE		text	1980
ERSTER VORTRAG 10. Juni 1923	1923-06-10	lecture	5737
ZWEITER VORTRAG 11. Juni 1923	1923-06-11	lecture	7240
DRITTER VORTRAG 12. Juni 1923	1923-06-12	lecture	6461
VIERTER VORTRAG 13. Juni 1923	1923-06-13	lecture	5732
FÜNFTER VORTRAG 14. Juni 1923	1923-06-14	lecture	5600
SECHSTER VORTRAG 15. Juni 1923	1923-06-15	lecture	5913
SIEBENTER VORTRAG 16. Juni 1923	1923-06-16	lecture	6204
ACHTER VORTRAG 17. Juni 1923	1923-06-17	lecture	7536
HINWEISE		apparatus	3259

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	9 the site's completeness audit
Printed units of text	9 the site's completeness audit
Words served	52443 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA258/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1959 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Anthroposophic Movement the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page HC1938

Translator	Ethel Bowen-Wedgwood the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1938
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	9	7, 2, 0	433	11, 2

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	3 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	3 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	6 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, Die Geschichte und die Bedingungen der anthroposophischen Bewegung im Verhältnis zur Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft (GA 258), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/258/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/258/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions HC1938.

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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_258
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 9ad36e616c298c9c
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA258/English/HC1938/
the archive's lecture edition page; verified by opening text
extract: data/steiner/witnesses/rsarchive_editions_raw.json
the site's completeness audit: research/audits/2026-10-ga-completeness/scorecard.json · 2026-11-04

status as of 2026-11-04 · all volumes