Walter Goffart

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Works

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5 total works indexed

1. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

   · 1983 · cited 31,523x

2. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,787x

3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

   · 2020 · cited 15,971x

4. The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease

   · 2011 · cited 13,458x

5. A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity

   · 1943 · cited 13,224x

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Quotes

• “What we call the Fall of the Western Roman Empire was an imaginative experiment that got a little out of hand.”
• “My central concern in the present book is... to liberate barbarian history from the German nationalism that has suffused it ever since the sixteenth century and, in whatever disguises, continues to do so today.”
• “Strange as it may seem to hear it said, there were no Germanic peoples in late antiquity. The illusion that there were can be outgrown.”
• “I would be content if "German" and its derivatives were banished from all but linguistic discourse on this subject.”
• “The adjective "German;' an umbrella term for many of the diverse northern barbarians of the late Roman period, is the key to such unifying compounds as "the Germanic world;' "Germanic migrations;' "Germanic peoples;' "Germanic style;' "Germanic law;' "Germanic grave goods": wherever it turns up it simplifies and unifies, and presides over collective actions that did not take place... "German" will not go away by itself; it has to be stubbornly shown the door.”
• “The main goal of this book is to reform thinking and writing about the barbarians in late antiquity by driving out the anachronistic terms "German" and "Germanic" and the baggage that goes with them.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Walter

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Berlin

Place of death

New Haven

Occupation

university teacher

Educated at

Harvard University

Employer

Yale University

Languages spoken

English language

Academic degree

Doctor of Philosophy

Field of work

medieval studies

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