Hartman, Geoffrey H

LC control no.	n 80034213
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3558.A712
Personal name heading	Hartman, Geoffrey H. *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Hartman, Geoffrey Hartmann, Geoffrey H.
Associated country	United States
Located	Buckinghamshire (England) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1929-08-11
Death date	2016-03-14
Place of birth	Frankfurt am Main (Germany)
Place of death	Hamden (Conn.)
Field of activity	Comparative literature Poetry Criticism Deconstruction
Affiliation	Yale University Cornell University University of Iowa State University of Iowa Yale University
Profession or occupation	College teachers Poets Critics
Found in	His The unmediated vision, 1954. Holocaust remembrance, 1993: CIP t.p. (Geoffrey Hartman) pub. information (Prof. of comparative literature, Yale Univ.) LC in OCLC, 16 Dec. 2002 (hdg.: Hartman, Geoffrey H.; usage: Geoffrey Hartman, Geoffrey H. Hartman) Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 8/11/29) The eighth day, 2013: title page (Geoffrey Hartman) New York times WWW site, viewed Mar. 21, 2016 (in obituary published Mar. 20: Geoffrey H. Hartman; b. Geoffrey H. Hartmann, Aug. 11, 1929, Frankfurt; his middle initial stood for nothing; evacuated from Nazi Germany in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport; spent the war years in England, living with other evacuated children at Waddesdon Manor, the Buckinghamshire country estate of James de Rothschild; moved to New York after World War II; d. Mar. 14, Hamden, Conn., aged 86; literary critic whose work took in the Romantic poets, Judaic sacred texts, Holocaust studies, deconstruction, and the workings of memory, and took on the very function of criticism itself; joined the Yale faculty in 1955; spent the early and mid-1960s at the University of Iowa and at Cornell before rejoining Yale in 1967; as a result of his association with the Yale School, he was often called a deconstructionist, but his critical stance eluded tidy classification)
Associated language	eng