• Hartmann, F. (1884). Report of Observations Made During a Nine Month Stay at the Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, India. Scotland: Graves, Cookson and CO. https://franzhartmann.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Hartmann-F.-Observations-Report.pdf  

  • Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[i] All occultists, regardless of which denomination they belong to, were saddened by this news. The passing of this steadfast champion of truth, intellectual freedom and ethical advancement represents a great, irreplaceable loss for all of us. Dr. Franz Hartmann died on August 7th of this year in Kempten in […]

  •  Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl           Dr. Franz Hartmann died at the age of 74 in Kempten, his hometown, while passing through. With him has faded away one of those old collaborators of the theosophical movement who had the privilege of personally having known H. P. Blavatsky and of having worked with her. At […]

  • Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl With Franz Hartmann, another witness of the early days of the “Theosophical Society” has passed away; he belonged to the small circle of those around H. P. Blavatsky.           What we German followers of theosophy owe to the departed will be briefly outlined here as a sign of remembrance […]

  • [Aus meinem Leben] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] [A note to the reader. The pdf form of this document accommodates “live notes capability.” If you click on the superscripted note number in the text body, it will jump to the note, whether endnote or footnote. Then, when clicking on the superscripted endnote or […]

  • Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] With this number we bring a well-chosen portrait of H. P. Blavatsky, the founder of the “Theosophical Society,” who has rightly been called “the sphinx of the nineteenth century” because she was an unsolvable enigma to “science” for most of her lifetime, and like man in general, she […]

  • [Erinnerungen an H. P. Blavatsky][1] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl So much has been written about Helena Petrovna Blavatsky that there is hardly anything new to say about her, and if I have to say anything about my relations with her, I am obliged, for the sake of understanding, to speak primarily of […]

  • These articles were reformatted from the originals, with the content unchanged other than fixing minor typos. Translations from the German by Robert Hutwohl ©2025. The translator’s note insertions are within curly brackets {}, and are not by Franz Hartmann. Titled: “Denkwürdige Erinnerungen aus dem Leben des Verfassers der ‘Lotusblüten’ ” [Memorable Recollections from the Life […]

  • Six letters consisting of: I.Ostende, December 5, 1885. II.Würzburg, December (something), 1885. III.[No date.] IV.[No date.] V.[No date.] VI.[April 3, 1886.] Comments from Robert Hutwohl. If we compare these six letters printed in the earlier, The Path (printed February and March 1896) and the later, Theosophical Quarterly (printed Letters I-V, January 1925 and Letter VI […]

  • [Vorschlag zur Errichtung eines Erinnerungsdenkmals für Dr. Franz Hartmann] Translation from the German by Robert Hütwohl[i] Death has taken the tireless champion of spiritualization, Dr. Franz Hartmann, to whom we owe the introduction of theosophical ideas in Germany. With him departs a personality worthy of being honored by all researchers of truth for all time. […]