Franz Baermann Steiner
Franz Baermann Steiner ( born October 12, 1909 in Karlin, Bohemia, † November 27, 1952 in Oxford ) was an ethnologist and poet.
Life
He belonged to the last generation of the Prague Jewish- German literature. He grew up as the son of a Jewish merchant in Prague and was a close friend since his youth with Hans Günther Adler. At the Charles University in Prague, he studied Semitic languages and ethnology. At the Hebrew University in Jerusalem Steiner learned Arabic and received his PhD in 1935 in Prague (Studies on the history of Arabic root ). His anthropological studies he began in 1936 in England at Magdalen College, Oxford continues where Alfred Radcliffe -Brown held the chair of Social Anthropology. In early 1937 he undertook a multi-week research trip to Karpathoruthenien, the easternmost part of Czechoslovakia. In exile in England he was friends with, among others, the London-based Elias Canetti, whom he had met in Vienna. Steiner led Canetti in the Student Movement House, Gower Street, where they met for several years. He was also the Canetti was the first to show the work of Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd " Bushman " folklore, which he had just purchased in one of the antiquarian bookstores around the British Museum around. Specimens of Bushman Folklore delivered Canetti later important insights into the nature of the transformation ( " Crowds and Power ").
Steiner's main scientific work on the sociology of slavery remained unfinished. First-hand insights into Steiner's character and career, his scientific methodology and its relation to Canetti 's a letter from Hans Günther Adler Chaim Rabin and eagle afterword to unrest without clock.
Franz Baermann Steiner is buried in the Jewish cemetery in Oxford, his parents were murdered in 1942 in the concentration camp Treblinka.
Works
- Taboo. With a preface by Edward Evan Evans -Pritchard. Harmondsworth, 1967 ( First published by Cohen & West 1956)
- Restlessness without clock. Selected poems from the estate. With an afterword by Hans Günther Adler. Heidelberg, Lambert Schneider, 1954 ( Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt; 3)
- Conquests. A lyrical cycle. Ed with an epilogue. by Hans Günther Adler. Heidelberg, Schneider, 1964 ( Publications of the German Academy for Language and Poetry in Darmstadt; 33)
- Jeremy Adler, Richard Fardon (ed.): Franz Baermann Steiner: Selected Writings. Volume I, II Taboo, Truth, and Religion
- Eastern policy, value, and Civilization. Berghahn Books, Oxford 1999 ( Methodology and History in Anthropology, Vol 2, 3).