W.F. VELTMAN was born in Den Haag, Netherlands, in 1923. He discovered anthroposophy during the period of Nazi occupation, and later worked at a Waldorf school for 41 years where he taught French, Art History and the Humanities and directed many theatrical productions. Mr Veltman gave many lectures in the Netherlands and abroad and published books on cultural and historical subjects including Dante, Shakespeare, Goethe and Victor Hugo and wrote hundreds of articles for the educational magazine Vrije Opvoedkunst ('Free Education'). He died in 2018.