Rudolf Steiner's Complete Works

Rudolf Steiner's complete works run to over 330 volumes. English readers are not easily able to gain an overview of the whole. His books are published in translation, often incomplete, with little reference to their place in his complete oeuvre. Below is a listing of his written works with corresponding volume number from the Complete Edition (in German this is the GA number, GA being and abbreviation for the word "Gesamtausgabe", translated "complete edition") as assigned by the Rudolf Steiner Archives in Dornach, Switzerland. The Archives organized the Complete Edition and assigned volume numbers starting in 1956. The archival work is not yet finished; over a dozen volumes have been added in the last 5 years, with more in preparation.

Steiner Books has started to issue the Complete Works in English. The project aims to publish the entire set, volume for volume, following the German. The first volume in the Complete Works is volume 28, to be published in late spring 2006. It will be many years before this monumental task is complete.

You can click on the Volume Number for details on that volume.
German Titles
are listed first, and below them are a
direct translation of the complete German title into English.
These are my literal rendering of the original German titles, not the title under which the book may have been published in English. Some volumes have been published multiple times under multiple, different titles.

English translation and publishing history is complex. I have a partial references detailed for each volume number for which I have information. (Click on the volume number for details.) For those who are curious, I estimate that less than half of Rudolf Steiner's complete work is available in English. Only 156 volumes have been translated in their entirety.

This listing is reasonably complete and accurate, but probably has a few errors and omissions. Let me know if you see anything that is incorrect or missing.

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Daniel Hindes, August 2005