{"id":46839,"date":"2023-04-20T21:17:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T19:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=46839"},"modified":"2023-04-21T00:58:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T22:58:57","slug":"a-bridge-builder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-bridge-builder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Bridge Builder"},"content":{"rendered":"For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his profound knowledge of modern biology, he was able to show that Goethe's outline of a theory of organic nature was not a critique but an extension of basic biological research. A person, then, who builds bridges regarding the scientific nature of anthroposophy.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe burning question of what life is initially led Johannes Wirz to study molecular biology at the University of Basel. This relatively young scientific discipline promised to unlock the secrets of the development of organisms. In his working group under Walter Gehring, he was involved in groundbreaking discoveries in the 1980s. Fr<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For 35 years, Johannes Wirz supported and significantly shaped the work at the Research Institute at the Goetheanum. With his profound knowledge of modern biology, he was able to show that Goethe&#8217;s outline of a theory of organic nature was not a critique but an extension of basic biological research. A person, then, who builds bridges regarding the scientific nature of anthroposophy. The burning question of what life is initially led Johannes Wirz to study molecular biology at the University [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9410,"featured_media":45551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8762,8825],"tags":[11312,8814],"class_list":["post-46839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goetheanum","category-natural-sciences","tag-2023-9-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46839","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\/9410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}