GA 349 · Arts, esoteric classes and professions

Vom Leben des Menschen und der Erde. Über das Wesen des Christentums

The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity

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

German units missingGerman source unrecorded

Publication

Status in the catalog	published the site's GA catalog
Kind	text the site's GA catalog
ISBN	3-7274-3490-2 AnthroWiki (German) 978-3-7274-3490-7 AnthroWiki (German); the publisher's catalog of 2022 978-3-7274-7230-5 the publisher's catalog of 2022

Editions of the German volume

Edition	Year	Witness
3		the publisher's online catalog
	1980	AnthroWiki (German)
	2006	AnthroWiki (German)

Printed contents

15 units in the printed table of contents, about 87,661 words the printed table of contents. Edition of 1961.

The units as printed

Heading	Date	Place	Kind	Words
GELEITWORT zum Erscheinen von Veröffentlichungen aus den Vorträgen Rudolf Steiners für die Arbeiter am Goetheanum vom August 1922 bis September 1924			apparatus	454
ERSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. Februar 1923	1923-02-17	Dornach	lecture	5994
ZWEITER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. Februar 1923	1923-02-21	Dornach	lecture	6037
DRITTER VORTRAG Dornach, 3. März 1923	1923-03-03	Dornach	lecture	5767
VIERTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. März 1923	1923-03-14	Dornach	lecture	5078
FÜNFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 17. März 1923	1923-03-17	Dornach	lecture	6815
SECHSTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. März 1923	1923-03-21	Dornach	lecture	6208
SIEBENTER VORTRAG Dornach, 4. April 1923	1923-04-04	Dornach	lecture	6459
ACHTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. April 1923	1923-04-09	Dornach	lecture	6624
NEUNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 14. April 1923	1923-04-14	Dornach	lecture	6029
ZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 18. April 1923	1923-04-18	Dornach	lecture	6763
ELFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 21. April 1923	1923-04-21	Dornach	lecture	7149
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Mai 1923	1923-05-05	Dornach	lecture	6371
DREIZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 7. Mai 1923	1923-05-07	Dornach	lecture	5697
VIERZEHNTER VORTRAG Dornach, 9. Mai 1923	1923-05-09	Dornach	lecture	6216

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	14 the site's completeness audit
Words served	81595 the site's completeness audit
Served against the print	0.94 (comparable) the site's completeness audit
Source	https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/German/ the source record of the served German; unrecorded; scraped before April 2026
Edition used	1961 the source record of the served German

Printed units not served in German

Unit	Date	Why
ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Mai 1923	1923-05-05	outside_window

English

Served on this site

Colour and the Human Races the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page UNK1969

Translator	M. Cotterell the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page
Years	1969
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
The Life of Man on Earth and the Essence of Christianity the Rudolf Steiner Archive's lecture table SOL2024			2024		in copyright; machine translation
From Limestone to Lucifer...: Answers to Questions the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English) CW 349 the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	Anna R. Meuss AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Press the SteinerBooks catalog; AnthroWiki (English)	1999, 2000	9781855840973	in copyright
Cosmic Workings In Earth and Man AnthroWiki (English) CW 349 AnthroWiki (English)	M. Cotterell, D. S. Osmond AnthroWiki (English)	Rudolf Steiner Publishing Company AnthroWiki (English)	1952

Alignment of German and English

Edition	Units	Confidence (high, medium, low)	Paragraph pairs	Gaps (German, English)
English	13	9, 3, 1	648	3, 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	8 the site's completeness audit
Image files served	1 the site's completeness audit
Blackboard drawings	25 plates the site's blackboard index

Quality marks

1 printed unit is not served in German. 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

ZWÖLFTER VORTRAG Dornach, 5. Mai 1923 (1923-05-05): outside_window the site's completeness audit

How to cite this witness

Rudolf Steiner, Vom Leben des Menschen und der Erde. Über das Wesen des Christentums (GA 349), as served by anthroposophy.ai, https://anthroposophy.ai/ga/349/, register entry https://anthroposophy.ai/contents/349/, status as of 2026-11-04: German served; English editions UNK1969.

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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_349
AnthroWiki's page for the volume
AnthroWiki (English): https://en.anthro.wiki/GA_349 · 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 47981623a2cd5641
the edition code: data/steiner/publisher_codes.json
the Rudolf Steiner Archive's edition page: https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA349/English/UNK1969/ColHum_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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