{"id":54013,"date":"2024-03-06T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=54013"},"modified":"2024-04-19T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T13:24:42","slug":"the-desk-fire-rudolf-steiners-life-crisis-in-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-desk-fire-rudolf-steiners-life-crisis-in-1898\/","title":{"rendered":"The Desk Fire: Rudolf Steiner\u2019s Life Crisis in 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"Shortly after Rudolf Steiner\u2019s death, the art critic Max Osborn recounted an incident during his time as editor of the Magazin f\u00fcr Litteratur [Magazine for Literature]: \u201cOne day, we all received a strange letter, in which the mighty master of the Magazine communicated to us that, unfortunately, something fatal had occurred. As he, Steiner, tried to light his pipe last night, the whole desk went up in flames. \u2018Should you, dear sir, suppose that I still have any unanswered letters or outstanding manuscripts, I can only deeply regret&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.\u2019 No one has ever found out what happened on that horrible night&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.?<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>Shortly after Rudolf Steiner\u2019s death, the art critic Max Osborn recounted an incident during his time as editor of the Magazin f\u00fcr Litteratur [Magazine for Literature]: \u201cOne day, we all received a strange letter, in which the mighty master of the Magazine communicated to us that, unfortunately, something fatal had occurred. As he, Steiner, tried to light his pipe last night, the whole desk went up in flames. \u2018Should you, dear sir, suppose that I still have any unanswered letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9190,"featured_media":52901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8846,8848],"tags":[11482,11418,8814],"class_list":["post-54013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-literature","tag-en2024-10","tag-2024-3-4-en","tag-musings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54013","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=54013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}