Anastasius Nordenholz (1862 - 1953) is the author of '' Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens'' (''Scientology, Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge'') written in 1933.

His life

Anastasius Nordenholz was born on February 1, 1862, in

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. At the age of 16 he came to

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and studied law, political economics and

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successively in

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, Zurich and

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. He then went to

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, studying there as a private scholar until around 1905.Life of Dr. Anastasius Nordenholz
, in Free Zone “alternative scientology” site. In 1904, he published a study titled ''Allgemeine Theorie der gesellschaftlichen Produktion'' ( ''General Theory of the Production in Society''), which was linked with

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and in which he examined

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. This concerned political economics, with a focus on the science of human thinking and knowledge. This book was followed in 1927 with ''Welt als Individuation - Entwurf eines Individuationismus'' (''World as Individuation - Concept of an

Individuation The principle of individuation, or ', describes the manner in which a thing is identified as distinct from other things. The concept appears in numerous fields and is encountered in works of Leibniz, Carl Gustav Jung, Gunther Anders, Gilbert Sim ...

ism''). A supplement of the Publishing House Felix Meiner in Leipzig said: :“the author wants to unify the two big tendencies of European Spirituality, namely Kant's criticism and Darwin's selectionism. He tries to place the means of thinking of both directions in a neutral conceptional system and therewith tries to obtain a starting point in order to actually establish a critical statement regarding our conceptual thinking. The new unification is called individuationism. Hence a methodology of thinking of the world is signified which is based on the assumption of a world creative role of individuation. Within individuation, the inner circle of the

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and the outer circle of the

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s have one and the same

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. Perhaps we find here the decisive word for a solution to the rational-irrational crisis from which our actual conceptual thinking suffers". His work ''Scientologie, Wissenschaft von der Beschaffenheit und der Tauglichkeit des Wissens'' ("''Scientology Science of the Constitution and Usefulness of Knowledge''") was published in 1934. The

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has actively but in vain tried to suppress the book, as well as the domain name “scientologie”. He spent the remainder of his life in

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, in the southwest of the

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of Santa Fe, Argentina, to which he came back to after

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. He subsequently returned to Germany only as visitor. Nordenholz died at the age of 91 on September 21, 1953, in

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