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Fritz Koelln

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Professor Fritz Carl August Koelln (1901) was born in Hamburg, Germany, He received his PhD magna cum laude in 1927 from Hasmburg University. After immigrating to the US, he taught German for many years at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where he gained a devoted following as an inspired teacher. The Koelln Room, where most German classes are taught at Bowdoin today, was dedicated in 1972 in his honor. He was also much-loved as the leader of an anthroposophic study group there for a number of years. He wrote articles and translated (with James Pettegrove) the classic The Philosophy of the Enlightment (1951).

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Chadwick Library Edition Series

The Riddles of Philosophy

Presented in an Outline of Its History (CW 18)

Rudolf Steiner
Translated by Fritz Koelln
Revised by David W. Wood
Hardback
$90.00