Emil Bock

Emil Bock (born 19 May 1895 in Barmen; died 6 December 1959 in Stuttgart) was a German anthroposophist, author, theologian, and one of the founders of The Christian Community. In 1914, he began a study of languages at the University of Bonn. However, the same year he enlisted as a volunteer in the First World War and was sent to the front in Flanders, where he was wounded. In 1916, Bock met the theologian Friedrich Rittelmeyer, and from 1918 he studied Protestant theology in Berlin before gradua…