Rudolf Steiner — Austrian Philosopher born on February 05, 1861, died on March 30, 1925

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian philosopher, author, social reformer, architect, and esotericist. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published philosophical works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century, he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy; other influences include Goethean science and Rosicrucianism... (wikipedia)