[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 […]
Suggestion as to the Establishment of a Memorial for Dr. Franz Hartmann by Dr. [Paul Harald] Grävell
[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. […]
(Extract from the “Phœnix” of Darmstadt-Frankfort, April, 1890.) [1] I believe I shall engage the interest of the adherents to our purpose if I introduce to them one who has achieved great things in fields of thought, standing in certain relation to our own aim. We shall have an opportunity later on to refer more […]
[Briefkasten. Von Dr. Grävell. Neue Lotusblüten 6, no. 5-6 (May-June 1913), 191-192] [En] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl[1] I sent the following short obituary to the editors of the well-known Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung for publication immediately after Hartmann’s death. It is characteristic of our time that no one felt the need to take […]
Ralph Shirley, Editor of the Occult Review[1] IT is with great regret—a regret that will be shared, I am sure, by all readers of the Occult Review—that I have to record the passing over, on August 7, in his seventy-fourth year, of the celebrated Austrian physician and occultist, Dr. Franz Hartmann, at Kempten, in Southern […]
Translation from German by Robert Hutwohl[1] Dr Franz Hartmann’s manly approach to theosophy is all the more winning and confidence-inspiring because his life in European science has given him the intellectual training that protected him from uncritical overestimation of theories and facts. As a doctor, he is familiar with the methods of scientific research, which […]
Note[1] SOMEBODY of old has said:— “Give ye not that which is sacred to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before the swine, for the swine will tread them under their feet and the dogs will turn and rend you.” It is therefore with a great deal of hesitation and reluctance that I make […]
† [Dr. Franz Hartmann, der Gründer der Intern. Theosophischen Verbrüderung. Sein Leben und Wirken. Von Hermann Rudolph.] Translation from the German by Robert Hutwohl [1] [2] We live in a momentous time when the Spirit of Truth is making tremendous efforts, as always happens at the turn of two ages, to remove from the minds […]