Geoffrey Hartman was an influential literary critic, scholar, and professor known for his work in the fields of critical theory, literary studies, and Holocaust literature. He was born on June 29, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, and emigrated to the United States in 1939 to escape the Nazis. Hartman developed a significant body of scholarship that focused on topics such as romanticism, modernism, and the interplay between literature and history.
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