Karl Konig: My Task - Autobiography and Biographies

Informationen zum Autor Karl König (1902-66) was well-known as a physician, author and lecturer. He began his work at the Institute of Embryology at the University of Vienna. In 1940 he founded the Camphill Movement in Scotland. Based on Rudolf Steiner's insights into human development, the special education schools for children and villages for adults with special needs are now established in many parts of the world. Peter Selg was born in Stuttgart in 1963. He studied medicine in Zurich and Berlin. Until 2000 he worked as the head physician of the child and juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. He now works as a youth psychiatrist at the Ita Wegman Clinic in Arlesheim, Switzerland, lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books. He is married with three children. Klappentext In Germany, Karl Konig founded Pilgrimshain, a home for children with special needs. However, following the annexation of Austria by the Nazis, he and many young people around him moved to Great Britain as refugees. In 1939, the ideal of working together as a community was put into practice with the founding of Camphill. Konig became the driving force that led to the expansion of the Camphill movement throughout the British Isles, into Europe, South Africa, and North America. He died in 1966. Zusammenfassung The story of Karl König's remarkable life and work.

Product details

• Authors: Karl König, Karl Koenig, Karl Konig, Karl König
• Assisted by: Peter Selg (Editor), Peter Selg (Editor), Selg Peter (Editor)
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.06.2008
• EAN: 9780863156281
• ISBN: 978-0-86315-628-1
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Karl Konig Archive; Karl Koenig Archive; Karl Koenig Archive; Karl König Archive
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Autobiography: general, MEDICAL / Pediatrics, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, RELIGION / Theosophy, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Paediatric medicine, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Theosophy & Anthroposophy, Theosophy and Anthroposophy, Paediatric medicine / child and adolescent medicine