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Were my great grandfather and great uncle a contemporary of Steiner and Jung?


My great uncle Ernst Aeppli wrote books on dreams, translated into several languages.

My paternal great grandfather, Willi Aeppli attended the seminary in Zurich. He studied the German language and literature at the University of Zurich. From 1921 he had several encounters with Rudolf Steiner. 



My paternal grandfather Hans Felix Leu became an architect and helped build a Steiner school in Basel.




"The dream and its interpretation, with 500 dream symbols."
Ernst became a psychologist and wrote about dreams.  He was a contemporary of Carl Jung.  He married Getrud Zschokke and their children were David, Arlette and Guy. Ernst later remarried to Erna Eckhert, and they had twin daughters, Doris and Christin (deceased).

Ernst Aeppli (28 April 1892 in BrittnauCanton of Aargau – † 26 August 1954 in Zurich) was a Swiss psychoanalyst (school of Carl Gustav Jung).

Between 1914 and 1918 he served as a medical corporal and studied at the University of Zurich and with C.G. Jung.





Willi Aeppli 1894-1972

"Willi Aeppli (1894-1972) was a master Waldorf teacher in the Rudolf Steiner School in Basel, Switzerland. He is remembered as an excellent teacher who used his observations and daily experience to enrich his classroom teaching. He also led many informal courses on the art of education for teachers and prospective teachers throughout his long career as an educator." source

"Born in 1894 in Ada, Ghana, where his parents were active in the Basel Mission. After school, he attended the seminary in Zurich. It was followed by a study of the Germanic, the German language and literature at the University of Zurich. From 1921 he had several encounters with Rudolf Steiner. By 1927, Willi Aeppli taught at various cantonal schools. From 1927, a year after the founding of the Rudolf Steiner School in Basel, he was there, working up to his death in 1972, as a teacher."   http://www.geistesleben.de/urheber/willi-aeppli

WWI 1914-1918 

"The first Waldorf school opened in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. Emil Molt, director of the Waldorf Astoria cigarette factory, invited Rudolf Steiner to become the pedagogical director of a school for the children of his factory workers. Steiner’s insightful philosophy, that education must be based on an understanding of human development, became what we now know as Waldorf Education." source




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