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Also known as Francis George Steiner

American writer (1928–2020)

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Born
23 April 1929
Died
3 February 2020
Works
255

Top works

  • Éloge de la transmission
  • The dissent from reason
  • Platon et les poetès
  • Language and silence
  • The portage to San Cristobal of AḤ

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Listeners
19
Total plays
42

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5 total works indexed

  1. A short history of<i>SHELX</i>

    · 2007 · cited 79,651x

  2. Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test

    · 1997 · cited 47,787x

  3. Crystal structure refinement with<i>SHELXL</i>

    · 2015 · cited 40,064x

  4. <i>SHELXT</i>– Integrated space-group and crystal-structure determination

    · 2015 · cited 26,949x

  5. A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity

    · 1961 · cited 23,020x

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Quotes

  • The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we do not quite understand, the man of genius casts light. Instinctively, we flinch from this light. We assure ourselves that genius must pay a terrible price. Often history bears us out: the creator, the supreme artist, the master of politics carries the scars of his greatness.
  • The age of the book is almost gone.
  • There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
  • We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and wars more bestial.
  • Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.
  • Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

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Key facts

Born
Francis George Steiner , ( 1929-04-23 ) April 23, 1929, Neuilly-sur-Seine , France
Died
February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03) (aged 90), Cambridge , England
Occupation
Author essayist literary critic professor
Education
University of Chicago ( BA ), Harvard University ( MA ), Balliol College, Oxford ( DPhil )
Period
1960–2014
Genre
History, literature, literary fiction
Notable works
After Babel (1975)
Notable awards
Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award (1998)
Spouse
Zara Shakow ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1955 ) ​

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Number of children
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date of birth
1929-04-23
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name in native language
George Steiner
date of death
2020-02-03
birth name
Francis George Nathaniel Steiner
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Francis George Steiner, FBA (April 23, 1929 – February 3, 2020) was a French and American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist and educator. He wrote extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, as well as the impact of the Holocaust. A 2001 article in The Guardian described Steiner as a "polyglot and polymath".

To his admirers, Steiner is "among the great minds in today's literary world". English novelist A. S. Byatt described him as a "late, late, late Renaissance man ... a European metaphysician with an instinct for the driving ideas of our time". Harriet Harvey-Wood, a former literature director of the British Council, described him as a "magnificent lecturer – prophetic and doom-laden [who would] turn up with half a page of scribbled notes, and never refer to them".

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