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Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer, Freemason (member of Huguenot Lodge #448, now #46) and the co-founder and first president of the Theosophical Society.
Henry Steel Olcott was an American author, attorney, philosopher, and cofounder of the Theosophical Society, a religious sect incorporating aspects of Buddhism, Brahmanism, and Christian esotericism. Olcott was agricultural editor of the New York Tribune (1858–60), and with the rank of colonel he.
Jan 30, 2024 · Henry Steel Olcott ( August 2, 1832 – February 17, 1907) was an agriculturist, American military officer, journalist, lawyer, and co-founder of the Theosophical Society . He held the title of President-Founder of the Society from 1875 till his death in 1907.
Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907): Founder-President of The Theosophical Society. Born on 2 August 1832, he was the oldest son of a businessman Henry Wyekoff Olcott and Emily Steel Olcott.
Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907), founder and first president of the Theosophical Society, is well-known as the first prominent person of Western descent to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped Buddhism into a new renaissance.
(1832-1907). First President and Co-Founder of the Theosophical Society (TS). Born August 2, 1832, at Orange, New Jersey, Olcott was the eldest of six children of Henry Wyckoff Olcott and Emily Steel. He studied at the College of the City of New York and at Columbia University until his father’s business failed in 1851.
Jun 29, 2019 · Henry Steel Olcott (1832-1907) lived the first half of his life the way a respectable gentleman was expected to live in 19th century America. He served as a Union officer in the U.S. Civil War and then built a successful law practice.
In December 1878, the theosophist Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907) took a ship from New York to Bombay. For the rest of his life, he would mainly live in India, because he was, or became, convinced that the solution to his spiritual questions lay in Asia.
Henry Steel Olcott was born on August 2, 1832, in Orange, New Jersey. After an early career in agricultural science and journalism, he served during the Civil War as a military investigator of fraud and corruption.
Henry Steel Olcott lived his life according to that view. Marie Russak, who then served as his secretary, records that on February 3, two weeks before his death, Olcott was visited by four of the masters who came to tell him that his work was over and to thank him for it.
