Franz Baermann Steiner
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1909 – 1952
Who was Franz Baermann Steiner?
Franz Baermann Steiner was an ethnologist, polymath, essayist, aphorist, and poet. He was familiar, apart from German, Yiddish, Czech, Greek and Latin, with both classical and modern Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Armenian, Persian, Malay, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, six other Slavic languages, Scandinavian languages and Dutch.
He taught at the University of Oxford from 1950 until his death two years later. His most widely known work, Taboo, is composed of his lectures on the subject and was posthumously published in 1956. The extensive influence his thinking exercised on British anthropologists of his generation is only now becoming apparent, with the publication of his collected writings. The Holocaust claimed his parents, in Treblinka in 1942, together with most of his kin.
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- Born
- Oct 12, 1909
Karlín - Also known as
- Franz Steiner
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- Czechoslovakia
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Charles University in Prague
- Died
- Nov 27, 1952
Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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