Everything about George Weidenfeld totally explained
Sir Arthur George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld (born
September 13,
1919 in
Vienna) is a British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist.
Weidenfeld attended the
University of Vienna and the city's Diplomatic College. Following
Germany's annexation of
Austria in 1938, he emigrated to
London and began work with the monitoring service of the
British Broadcasting Corporation. By 1942 he was a political commentator for the BBC and also authored a weekly newspaper column.
In 1948, Weidenfeld co-founded the publishing firm Weidenfeld & Nicolson with
Nigel Nicolson. The firm published several landmark titles, including
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita and Nicolson's own controversial autobiography
Portrait of a Marriage. In 1949 he served as political adviser and Chief of Cabinet to
Chaim Weizmann.
Weidenfeld, who became a British citizen in 1946, was knighted in 1969 and created
Life peer as Baron Weidenfeld of Chelsea in the County of
Greater London in 1976. Further honors have included Honorary Fellow of
St Peter's College, Oxford, Honorary Fellow of
St Anne's College, Oxford and Honorary D.Litt. from the
University of Exeter.
In 1985, Weidenfeld's publishing interests expanded to the United States, when he acquired the
Grove Press in partnership with
Ann Getty (wife of
Gordon Getty). Grove later merged with the New York division of Weidenfeld & Nicolson to form Grove Nicolson. In 1991, Weidenfeld & Nicolson's UK branch was sold to the
Orion Publishing Group and became Orion's main non-fiction imprint. In 1993 the US company, Grove Nicolson, merged with the Atlantic Monthly Press to form
Grove/Atlantic Inc.
Weidenfeld's responsibilities therefore no longer include day-to-day business operations, but he continues to work on attracting prestigious authors to his
imprints. A notable coup for Weidenfeld & Nicolson came in 2005 when Weidenfeld arranged the publication of
Memory & Identity by
John Paul II. Weidenfeld also remains active as a columnist for the
Berlin newspaper
Die Welt.
In January 2006, the
Weidenfeld Institute for Strategic Dialogue, originally founded as The Club of Three in the
1990s, was established with Lord Weidenfeld as its president. This network-based policy organisation works with global leaders in the private and public sectors to challenge the long-range threats to international and communal peace and to enhance Europe’s capacity to be a coherent and effective player.
George Weidenfeld has served in many philanthropic capacities including Chairman of the
Ben Gurion University of the Negev (1996-2004), Governor of
Tel Aviv University, Governor of the
Weizmann Institute, Vice-Chairman of the EU-Israel Forum, and Trustee of the
National Portrait Gallery (1988-95).
Weidenfeld has been married to
Annabelle Whitestone since 1992.
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