GA 347 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Die Erkenntnis des Menschenwesens nach Leib, Seele und Geist. Über frühe Erdzustände

Understanding Human Beings in Terms of Body, Soul, and Spirit. About Early Conditions on Earth

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

German source unrecordedmachine translation

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-3470-8 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-3470-9 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Pages	Witness
3			the publisher's online catalog
	1995		AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

12 units in the printed table of contents, about 61,686 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1976.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
GELEITWORT zum Erscheinen von Veröffentlichungen aus den Vorträgen Rudolf Steiners für die Arbeiter am Goetheanumbau vom August 1922 bis September 1924			apparatus	452
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 2. August 1922	1922-08-02	Dornach	lecture	5178
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. August 1922	1922-08-05	Dornach	lecture	5861
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. August 1922	1922-08-09	Dornach	lecture	6526
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. September 1922	1922-09-09	Dornach	lecture	6030
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 13. September 1922	1922-09-13	Dornach	lecture	5852
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 16. September 1922	1922-09-16	Dornach	lecture	6044
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 20. September 1922	1922-09-20	Dornach	lecture	5533
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 23. September 1922	1922-09-23	Dornach	lecture	6018
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 27. September 1922	1922-09-27	Dornach	lecture	6943
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 30. September 1922	1922-09-30	Dornach	lecture	6272
HINWEISE			apparatus	977

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	60399 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	1.0 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA347/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1976 the source record of the served German

English

Served on this site

The Human Being as Body, Soul and Spirit the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page SOL2024

Publisher	Steiner Online Library the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	2024
Identified	by matching the served text's openings against the edition (score 1.0) the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
How made	machine translation with review (DeepL), Steiner Online Library the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations
Rights	in copyright

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
From Crystals to Crocodiles: Answers to Questions the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 347 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	Matthew Barton AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	2002, 2004	9781855841079	in copyright

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	11	5, 5, 1	523	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	28 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	5 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	9 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
Part or all of the served English is the Steiner Online Library's machine translation (DeepL with review), in copyright. the Steiner Online Library's account of its translations

Gaps

None recorded.

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Die Erkenntnis des Menschenwesens nach Leib, Seele und Geist. Über frühe Erdzustände (GA 347), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/347/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/347/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions SOL2024.

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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_347
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_347 · 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 printed table of contents: data/steiner/witnesses/ga_inhalt.json · sha256 60d031197908d706
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA347/English/SOL2024/
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
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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