Herbert Hahn

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Herbert Hahn (* 5 May 1890 in Pernau, Russia, now Estonia; † 20 June 1970 in Stuttgart), philologist, author, Waldorf teacher.

Life

Already a seeker at a young age, Hahn met Rudolf Steiner before World War I. His attention was drawn by friends and while he was studying languages in Heidelberg, Steiner suggested that he study comparative semantics intensively. Hahn, who immediately respected what he had been offered as a sanctuary, sought out Steiner again after the war, without arousing any surprise in him, and became a French teacher in Stuttgart in 1919, later also a class teacher at the first Waldorf School. Entrusted by Steiner with setting up and teaching free Christian religious education, he held the first "free Christian" Sunday lesson in 1920.

A soldier in World War II, he returned to the Stuttgart Waldorf school at the end of the war and taught there until 1961. His memoirs of Rudolf Steiner offer personal experiences, and the studies "Vom Genius Europas" awaken an understanding of the Russian, German and southern, western and northern European soul.

From the Genius of Europe

Language and literature are the starting point for the "encounter with twelve countries, peoples, languages" (Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, England, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Germany) in his main work "On the Genius of Europe". Hahn identifies in Russia the strong bond between man and the Earth; in Italy, the watery, crystalline clarity of life and perception, which is revealed in the Italian vowels; France is seen as a place of rounding off in language (nasal sounds) and the admiration of eternal youth; England as the home of the independent, but also as a region with remarkable mysteries; Germany, following Goethe's "Faust", as the place where one does not possess one's own unchangeable soul characteristics and therefore has the task of adapting the characteristics of the other nations: One is Russian, Italian, French, English; but one becomes German.

Works

  • Das Erwachen des Geigers. Eine legendäre Erzählung, 2. Aufl. 1990, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-249-1
  • Das goldene Kästchen. Erzählungen - Legenden - Märchen, 4. Aufl. 1989, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-033-2
  • Das Heilige Land. Reisebilder und Eindrücke, 3. Aufl. 1990, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-250-5
  • Rudolf Steiner - Wie ich ihn sah und erlebte, 2. Auflage 1990, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-247-5
  • Schritt für Schritt wird Weg gewonnen. Zeugnissprüche und Gedichte, 2. Auflage 1985, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-015-4
  • Seltsame Jahrmarktsleute. Erzählung 3. Auflage 1989, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-186-X
  • Sonne im Tautropfen. Beiträge zur Diätetik der Seele, 1990, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-256-4
  • Vom Ernst des Spielens. Eine zeitgemäße Betrachtung über Spielzeug und Spiel, 4. Auflage 1988, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-032-4
  • Vom Genius Europas. Begegnung mit zwölf Ländern, Völkern, Sprachen. Band 1: Italien, Spanien, Portugal, Frankreich 1992, Stuttgart (Freies Geistesleben) ISBN 3-7725-1213-5
  • Vom Genius Europas. Begegnung mit zwölf Ländern, Völkern, Sprachen. Band 2: Niederlande, England 1992, Stuttgart (Freies Geistesleben) ISBN 3-7725-1214-3
  • Vom Genius Europas. Begegnung mit zwölf Ländern, Völkern, Sprachen. Band 3: Dänemark, Schweden, Norwegen, Finnland 1992, Stuttgart (Freies Geistesleben) ISBN 3-7725-1215-1
  • Vom Genius Europas. Begegnung mit zwölf Ländern, Völkern, Sprachen. Band 4: Russland, Deutschland 1992, Stuttgart (Freies Geistesleben) ISBN 3-7725-1216-X
  • Von den Quellkräften der Seele, 4. Auflage 1990, Stuttgart (J. Ch. Mellinger) ISBN 3-88069-150-9
  • Mein Weg zum Kreis in Rudolf Steiner - Aus den Inhalten der Esoterischen Stunden - Band-3 - 1913-1914 & 1920-1923 GA 266/3

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