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Summary Information
Biosophical Institute Records
1929-1972
Mss 794
13.0 c.f. (33 archives boxes and 1 card box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Records, mainly 1938-1957, of the Biosophical Institute, an ethical reform movement founded by Frederick Kettner in 1928. Prior to its dissolution in the late 1950s the institute's programs included an educational community center at its New York City headquarters, experiments in communitarian living, and efforts in behalf of world peace. Collected and preserved by members Robert and Diane Langer, the records include are historical and background material concerning Kettner's development of Biosophy from the ideas of Spinoza; copies and originals of Kettner's correspondence; extensive mimeographed correspondence from institute members that was distributed within the group for spiritual self-study; and subject files. Extensive expressions of the biosophical philosophy are present in poetry, lectures, and in published newsletters and journals such as the Biosophical Review and the Neo-Christian. Activity files concern ethical improvement classes and meetings and efforts during the 1930s and 1940s to advance proposals such as a national secretary of peace.
English
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