1. Ehrenfried Erwin Pfeiffer was a German scientist, soil scientist, leading advocate of biodynamic agriculture, anthroposophist and student of Rudolf Steiner.
13 Facts About Ehrenfried Pfeiffer
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer began work with Rudolf Steiner in 1920 to develop and install special diffuse stage lighting for eurythmy performances on the stage of the first Goetheanum.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer became manager and director of the 800-acre experimental biodynamic Loverendale farm in Domburg in the Netherlands.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer first visited the US in 1933 to lecture to a group of anthroposophists at the Threefold Farm in Spring Valley, New York on biodynamic farming.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer's consulting was essential to the development of biodynamic agriculture in the US.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer developed an analytical method using copper chloride crystallization and used this technique as a blood test for detecting cancer.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer studied chemistry and became a professor of nutrition in 1956.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer wrote on the dangers of pesticides and DDT and Rachel Carson consulted with him when she was writing Silent Spring.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer was a pioneer of biodynamic agriculture in Europe, Britain, and America.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer is most widely known for his innovative work in composting.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer conducted extensive research on the preparation and use of biodynamic compost and was the inventor of BD Compost Starter, a compost inoculant.
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For many years Ehrenfried Pfeiffer served as a compost consultant to municipal compost facilities, most notably Oakland, California, as well as countries in the Caribbean, Europe, and the Far East.
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Ehrenfried Pfeiffer invented two anthroposophic Image forming methods, a method using a round filter chromatography and the copper chloride crystallization method, developed together with Erika Sabarth.