Kolisko Conferences 2006

Eugen Kolisko

 

Born in Vienna on the 21st March 1893, Eugen Kolisko grew up in a home which was equally filled with the arts as with the sciences. His father, Dr Alexander Kolisko, was professor of Pathological Anatomy in Austria. Eugen Kolisko also studied medicine and stood at the beginning of a shining academic career, when he was called to the newly founded Waldorf School in Stuttgart by Rudolf Steiner. There, he formed a new professional occupation: the specialist doctor for preventative medicine, a doctor active in the school, who could get to know children from their developmental situation and could advise, both teacher and parents, how best to support and accompany the child's development.

 

Eugen Kolisko was at the same time a member of the College of Teachers. He taught Anthropology, First Aid, Zoology and Chemistry in the upper classes. In connection with the lessons, he was sort out, as a doctor, by students and teachers, and also people in the school's environment. Perceptive, and with lively thinking, he moved people who had something to do with him, through the goodness of his being and the healthy and fresh atmosphere he had about him. The new developmental ideals of Rudolf Steiner were enlivened by Eugen Kolisko. An education art with the aim to develop and realise the healthy body, soul and spiritual development of the child, with a healing therapeutic effect. This was the life task to which Eugen Kolisko was committed.

 

After his exclusion from the Stuttgart Waldorf School, he brought about the founding of the first Association for the Expansion of Medicine, in Unterlengenhardt (Germany). In 1936 Eugen Kolisko emigrated to England, where he undertook the founding of a private university. From there he travelled to America in search of new possibilities for a healing cultural and developmental work through Anthroposophy. On the 29th December 1939, Eugen Kolisko died near London from a sudden cardiac death.

 

Since 1989, the 50th anniversary of Eugen Kolisko's death, under the name and spiritual patronage of Eugen Kolisko, there have been 5 international "Kolisko conferences"

 

 

 

International Kolisko conferences from 1989 to today

organised by the Medical Section at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland:

 

22. - 28. 10. 1989: Stuttgart/Ger "The joint Tasks of the Doctor and the Teacher"
with over 900 participants from 27 countries

 
18. - 24. 10. 1992: Forest Row/GB "The Pedagogical Practice of Schooling the Senses and their Foundation in the Study of Man"
with approx. 550 participants from 24 countries

 
16. - 22. 10. 1994: Wien/A "Attention, Interest and Strengthening of Memory - Their Enhancement by Cultivating the Senses"
with approx 540 participants from 25 countries

 
01. - 07. 08. 1998: Sacramento/USA "The Medical Foundations of the Waldorf Curriculum"
with appox. 800 participants from 26 countries

 
27. 7. - 2. 8. 2002: Lahti/FI "The therapeutic Task of the Teacher"
with approx. 900 participants from 24 countries