- Alfred Meebold
Alfred Karl Meebold (
Heidenheim , a.d. Brenz,September 29 1863 –January 6 1952 ,Havelock North ) was a botanist, writer, and anthroposophist.Life
Meebold worked at his father's factory, in the Württembergische Cattunmanufactur.
He travelled to
India three times, first in 1904, and toNew Zealand for the first time in 1928.Meebold became a personal student ofRudolf Steiner .Between 1928 and 1938 he spent many months inBudapest ,Hungary , where he worked at the first non-German-languageWaldorf school in the world. Its founder was Nagy Emilné Göllner Mária (later, in Switzerland known as Maria von Nagy).Meebold left Europe in 1938, intending to relocate to New Zealand. He was detained in Hawaii because of
World War II , and was not able to leave Honolulu until after 1945.The Australian plants "Acacia meeboldii", "Darwinia meeboldii" and "Geranium meeboldii" are named in his honour.
Works
* "Luzie's Testament", short stories (1895-1898)
* "Vox Humana", short stories (1895-1898, Berlin)
* "Sarolta", novel (1904, Berlin)
* "Das Erwachen der Seele", novel (1907, München)
* "Indien" (1907, Berlin)
* "Der Weg zum Geist", auto-biography (1917 and 1920, München)
* "Irrmansdorf", novel (1926-1927, Basel)
* "Hotel Mooswald", novel (1928, Basel)
* "Der botanische Wandersmann", poems (1931, Oedenburg)
* "Zwischen Elf und Engel", poems (1933, Oedenburg)
* "Kurs zur Einführung in die Anthroposophie Rudolf Steiners", 6 lectures in Vienna, 1931. (1936)
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