A stone-setting for Franz Baermann Steiner will be held at the Jewish
section of Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, at 11.00 on Sunday 19 October.
All are welcome to attend.
Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52), a German-speaking émigré from Prague,
was both an anthropologist and a highly original poet. He was a lecturer
in social anthropology at Oxford in 1950-2. His book Taboo was
posthumously published by Penguin in 1967. More recently his Selected
Writngs on anthropological and related themes, edited by Jeremy Adler
and Richard Fardon, have been published by Berghahn (1999), and his
poems, only a few of which appeared during his lifetime, have been
edited from his 'Nachlass' by Jeremy Adler and published as Am
stürzenden Pfad: Gesammelte Gedichte (Wallstein, 2000).
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Professor Ritchie Robertson, FBA
Taylor Professor of German
Faculty of Modern Languages
University of Oxford
47 Wellington Square
Oxford OX1 2JF
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