PETER SELG was born in 1963 in Stuttgart and studied medicine in Witten-Herdecke, Zurich, and Berlin. Until 2000, he worked as head physician of the juvenile psychiatry department of Herdecke hospital in Germany. Dr Selg is now director of the Ita Wegman Institute for Basic Research into Anthroposophy (Arlesheim, Switzerland) and professor of medicine at the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences (Germany). He lectures extensively and is the author of numerous books, including The Figure of Christ, The Agriculture Course and Rudolf Steiner and Christian Rosenkreutz. He is married with five children.