Franz Baermann Steiner, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Franz Baermann Steiner

anthropologist, polymath, poet

Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1909

Place of Birth: Karlín, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 27-Nov-1952

Profession: poet, university teacher, anthropologist, philosopher

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Franz Baermann Steiner (born 12 October 1909 in the town of Karlín (the later suburb of Karolinethal), just outside Prague, Bohemia, died 27 November 1952, in Oxford) 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.