{"id":35942,"date":"2022-04-27T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=35942"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:07:21","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:07:21","slug":"rudolf-steiners-family-i-the-relatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/rudolf-steiners-family-i-the-relatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s Family I \u2013 The Relatives"},"content":{"rendered":"Oskar Schmiedel (1887\u20131959) was the first to conduct research on Rudolf Steiner's family. He personally visited descendants of the Blie and Steiner families and received photos from them \u2013 the portraits depicted here come from his collection (now the Goetheanum Archive).\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRudolf Steiner's ancestors \u2013 as far as they can be traced back \u2013 lived in a manageable geographical radius: in the Waldviertel (northeastern Austria) and in neighboring Moravia. All were craftsmen: farmers, millers, hunters, foresters, weavers, whitewashers, gingerbread bakers. Due to his father's profession, however, Rudolf Steiner grew up far away from this area \u2013 and thus probably only got to know a few of his relatives in his childhood.\n\n\n\nWhoever he met personally from his numerous aunts, uncles, and <div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oskar Schmiedel (1887\u20131959) was the first to conduct research on Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s family. He personally visited descendants of the Blie and Steiner families and received photos from them \u2013 the portraits depicted here come from his collection (now the Goetheanum Archive). Rudolf Steiner&#8217;s ancestors \u2013 as far as they can be traced back \u2013 lived in a manageable geographical radius: in the Waldviertel (northeastern Austria) and in neighboring Moravia. All were craftsmen: farmers, millers, hunters, foresters, weavers, whitewashers, gingerbread bakers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9190,"featured_media":37122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8846,9119],"tags":[9120,8814],"class_list":["post-35942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-forum","tag-2022-8-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}