{"id":2544,"date":"2016-03-27T11:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T11:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2016-03-25T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:05:39","slug":"karl-konig-celebrating-the-founder-of-the-camphill-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.florisbooks.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/03\/27\/karl-konig-celebrating-the-founder-of-the-camphill-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl K\u00f6nig: Celebrating the founder of the Camphill movement"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, 27th March, marks fifty years since the death of physician, author and lecturer Karl K\u00f6nig<\/a>. Throughout his career, he has written on a wide range of subjects from anthroposophy and Christology, through social questions and curative education, to science and history. Floris Books publish many of his writings in the Karl K\u00f6nig archive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig’s Early Life<\/h3>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig was born on September 25th 1902 in Vienna, Austria, the only son of a Jewish family who owned a shoeshop. He studied zoology, biology and medicine at the University of Vienna, graduating in 1927. During K\u00f6nig’s studies on embryology, he encountered the works of Rudolf Steiner through Goethe’s scientific writings. K\u00f6nig immediately identified with Steiner and was soon acquainted with a number of his followers, including Ita Wegman.<\/p>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig and Anthroposophy<\/h3>\n

Upon graduation, K\u00f6nig was offered several high-profile positions in Vienna but instead accepted an invitation from Ita Wegman to join her clinic in Arlesheim, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

K\u00f6nig’s time at the Clinic would shape the Camphill movement. It was here that he met his wife and co-founder, Tilla Maasberg, and it was here that he first witnessed the Advent Garden. During this festival, where children with learning disabilities circle a spiral of moss, lighting a candle from a large central beacon, he promised to ‘dedicate my life to the care and education of these children’.<\/p>\n

Following his time at Arlesheim, K\u00f6nig moved to Germany and was involved in founding the Pilgramshain Institute – one of the early curative educational centres based on anthroposophy. However, due to political pressure K\u00f6nig was forced to leave Germany in 1936. He returned to Vienna where he ran a successful medical practice and led anthroposophical study groups until 1938.<\/p>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig and the Camphill Movement<\/h3>\n

Fleeing Austria after Nazi annexation in 1938, K\u00f6nig was part of a small group of doctors, teachers and artists to be granted political asylum in the United Kingdom during 1939. K\u00f6nig moved to Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where this group founded a home for children with learning disabilities that became the beginning of the Camphill movement. After the Second World War, more schools were founded as well as curative education villages for adults with disabilities, based on the ideal of working together as a community.<\/p>\n

In the following decades, K\u00f6nig’s Aberdeenshire community grew and expanded into Britain, Europe and America, becoming the Camphill movement we recognise today. During this period, K\u00f6nig worked tirelessly to help children and adults with special needs through publications, talks and seminars \u2013 and by founding communities the world over.<\/p>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig returned to Germany in 1964, founding another community near \u00dcberlingen. He died there in 1966. Today, the Camphill movement he established includes more than 100 communities in over 20 different countries.<\/p>\n

Karl K\u00f6nig’s Books<\/h3>\n

Floris Books have now published fifteen titles in the Karl K\u00f6nig Archive. See a full list<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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