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Goldschmidt is a German surname meaning "Goldsmith". Notable people with the surname include: * Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848–1906), composer * Adolph Goldschmidt (1863–1944), art historian * Adolphe Goldschmidt (1838–1918), German-British banker * Alfons Goldschmidt * Berthold Goldschmidt (1903–1996), composer * Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (1807-1851), astronomer, mathematician, and physicist * Christina Goldschmidt, British statistician * David M. Goldschmidt (born 1942), American mathematician * Edmond Goldschmidt (1863–1934), French photographer * Elisabeth Goldschmidt (1912–1970), Israeli geneticist * Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954), Austrian-British bookseller and bibliophile * Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 1928), French writer and translator of German origin * Hans Goldschmidt (1861–1923), chemist, son of Theodor Goldschmidt * Harold Goldsmith, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer * Heinrich Jacob Goldschmi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Surname
Personal names in German-speaking Europe consist of one or several given names (''Vorname'', plural ''Vornamen'') and a surname (''Nachname, Familienname''). The ''Vorname'' is usually gender-specific. A name is usually cited in the "Name order, Western order" of "given name, surname". The most common exceptions are alphabetized list of surnames, e.g. "Johann Sebastian Bach, Bach, Johann Sebastian", as well as some official documents and spoken southern German dialects. In most of this, the German conventions parallel the naming conventions in most of Western and Central Europe, including English name, English, Dutch name, Dutch, Italian name, Italian, and French name, French. There are some vestiges of a patronymic system as they survive in parts of Eastern Europe and Scandinavia, but these do not form part of the official name. Women traditionally adopted their husband's name upon marriage and would occasionally retain their maiden name by hyphenation, in a so-called ''Doppelna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt
Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, also Heinrich Jakob Goldschmidt (12 April 1857, in Prague, Austria-Hungary – 20 September 1937, in Oslo, Norway), was a Jewish Austrian chemist who spent most of his career working in Norway. He studied chemistry at the Charles University in Prague, where he received his PhD in 1881. In the same year, he became professor at the ETH Zürich, where he worked with Victor Meyer. In 1888, his son Victor Goldschmidt was born; Victor later became a renowned mineralogist and founder of modern geochemistry. After working at the University of Amsterdam with Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff in 1894 and 1895, Heinrich Goldschmidt became a full professor at the ETH. He left the ETH in 1901 for the University of Oslo. He worked there until his retirement in 1929 at the age of 72. As his son Victor became a professor for mineralogy at the University of Göttingen in 1929, he moved with him to Göttingen, but both had to leave there after the Nazis came to power, and fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Goldschmidt
Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt (21 August 1829 – 24 February 1907) was a composer, conductor, pianist and educator, whose works included a piano concerto and other piano pieces, and an oratorio, ''Ruth'', on a biblical theme, written for the Three Choirs Festival. From a prosperous mercantile family in Hamburg, he studied under Felix Mendelssohn at the Leipzig Conservatoire and quickly established himself as a pianist. Among the singers whom he accompanied was "the Swedish Nightingale", the soprano Jenny Lind. They married in 1852, after which she insisted on being billed as "Madame Lind-Goldschmidt". Although Goldschmidt's compositions were regarded as conventional, his work as a teacher and member of the boards of music institutions made him an important figure in British musical life in the latter part of the 19th century. He took British citizenship in 1861. He outlived his wife by twenty years, dying in London aged 77. Life Early years Goldschmidt was born on 21 August ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Goldschmidt
Nicholas Goldschmidt, (December 6, 1908 – February 8, 2004) was a Canadian conductor, administrator, teacher, performer, music festival entrepreneur and artistic director. He was the grand-nephew of famed composer Adalbert von Goldschmidt (1848-1906). In 1937, Goldschmidt immigrated to the US, where he served as director of opera at the San Francisco Conservatory and Stanford University from 1938 to 1942. He was director of the opera department at Columbia University from 1942 to 1944. He subsequently moved to Toronto, where he served as the first music director of the Royal Conservatory Opera School (University of Toronto Opera Division) from 1946 to 1957. In 1950, Goldschmidt, Arnold Walter and Herman Geiger-Torel helped to found the Royal Conservatory Opera Company, which later became the Canadian Opera Company. From 1949 to 1957, Goldschmidt was the first music director of the CBC Opera Company. In 1978, Goldschmidt was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, and was pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neil Goldschmidt
Neil Edward Goldschmidt (June 16, 1940 – June 12, 2024) was an American businessman and Democratic politician from the state of Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades. After serving as mayor of Portland, Oregon, the United States Secretary of Transportation under President Jimmy Carter and governor of Oregon, Goldschmidt was at one time considered the most powerful and influential figure in Oregon's politics. In 2004, Goldschmidt's career and legacy were irreparably damaged by revelations of the ongoing sexual abuse of a young teenage girl beginning in 1973, during his first term as mayor of Portland. Goldschmidt was elected to the Portland City Council in 1970 and then as mayor of Portland in 1972, becoming, at the age of 32, the youngest mayor of any major American city. He promoted the revitalization of Downtown Portland and was influential on Portland-area transportation policy, particularly with the scrapping of the controversial Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt
Rabbi Meir () was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishnah. He was one of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139–163), and a disciple of Rabbi Akiva. He is the second most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishnah and is mentioned over 3,000 times in the Babylonian Talmud. His wife Bruriah is one of the few women cited in the Gemara. Biography According to the Talmud, his father was a descendant of the Roman Emperor Nero who, it is said, escaped death at the time of his deposition and became subsequently a convert to Judaism. Azariah de Rossi and David Gans propose that Nero may have converted to Judaism secretly, explaining the lack of historical evidence. Maimonides and Chaim Kanievsky affirm the Talmudic claim, asserting that Rabbi Meir was Nero’s direct descendant, while Menahem Azariah da Fano offers an allegorical interpretation, suggesting Rabbi Meir was a ''reincarnation'' of Nero rather than a literal descendant. Some modern scholars view the story as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie Goldschmidt
Marie Goldschmidt aka Mme. (Gustave) Goldschmidt born Marie Kann (1880–1917) was a French aeronaut who co-piloted a balloon world distance record in 1913 of over 2,400 km. She was the first woman to enter an Fédération Aéronautique Internationale balloon race when she finished sixth in the Gordon Bennett Cup. Early life Marie Kann was born in 1880 to Maximilien Edouard Hirsch Kann (1842-1901) and Saraline KÖNIGSWARTER (1849-1925). She married Gustave Goldschmidt and frequently used his name as "Madame Gustave Goldschmidt". Ballooning Goldschmidt came to notice as a balloonist. In 1911 she was flying with Marie Surcouf, President of the French balloon club for women aeronauts known as "La Stella"; and with Beatrix de Rijk, an Indonesian Dutch balloon pilot, first Dutch woman to earn an aviator pilot's license. She was a member of the Aéroclub féminin la Stella, a women's flying club set up by Marie Surcouf in 1909, and was on the managing committee. left, Rumpel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Márcia Goldschmidt
Márcia von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, best known as Márcia Goldschmidt (born July 22, 1960) is a Brazilian television presenter, writer, digital influencer, YouTuber and businesswoman. Personal life Goldschmidt-Rothschild was born into a humble family and began working as a nanny at the age of nine. She lived in Paris in the mid-1980s where she worked at an agency helping Brazilian artists who went to work in France. Six years later, she returned to Brazil and married a Swiss, Baron Cyril von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, and had a son. In Brazil, she set up the relationships agency Happy End and she was subsequently invited to present a program on the extinct TV channel Rede Mulher (currently Record News), also titled ''Happy End''. Career Two years later, she read a newspaper advertisement saying that the SBT TV channel was looking for a female presenter to host a talk show based on the American TV presenter ''Ricki Lake Ricki Pamela Lake (born September 21, 1968) is an Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levin Goldschmidt
Levin Goldschmidt (30 May 1829 – 16 July 1897) was a German jurist, judge and academic. He was a Judge at the Reichsoberhandelsgericht and a professor at the University of Berlin. Between 1875 and 1877 he also served as a member of the German Parliament. Life From 1847 to 1851 he pursued his studies at the universities of Berlin, Bonn, and Heidelberg, receiving his doctor's degree in 1851 from the University of Halle. He practised for several years in the courts of Danzig, became ''privatdozent'' at the University of Heidelberg in 1855, and was appointed associate professor in 1860. During the years 1857 to 1860 he published ''Kritik des Entwurfs eines Handelsgesetzbuchs für die Preussischen Staaten'' and ''Gutachten über den Entwurf eines Deutschen Handelsgesetzbuchs nach den Beschlüssen Zweiter Lesung,'' which at once attracted attention to him as a critical jurist. During the same period he published ''Der Lucca-Pistoja-Aktienstreit,'' Frankfurt, 1859 (Supplement, 1861). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazarus Goldschmidt
Lazarus Goldschmidt (born at Plungė, December 17, 1871; died in England, April 18, 1950) was a German Jewish writer and translator. He translated the Babylonian Talmud into German, and was the first to translate the entire Babylonian Talmud. He received his rabbinical education at the Talmudic school in Slobodki, near Kovno. In 1888 he went to Germany, and in 1890 entered the Berlin University, where, under the guidance of Professors Dillmann and Schrader, he devoted himself to the study of Oriental languages, especially Ethiopic. By 1903, Goldschmidt, living at the time in Berlin, had published the following works: * ''“Das Buch Henoch”'' retranslated from the Ethiopic into Hebrew, and edited with introduction, notes, and explanations (Berlin, 1892); "''Bibliotheca Aethiopica''," a list and description of all the known Ethiopic prints ( Leipsic, 1893) * ''“Das Buch der Schöpfung'' ( ספר יצירה)''”'' critical text, translation notes, etc. ( Frankfort-on-t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Goldschmidt
John Goldschmidt''a British-Austrian film director and producer. Goldschmidt was born in London, but grew up in Vienna leaving at the age of 16 to return to London. Goldschmidt has both Austrian and British nationality. He went to the Gymnasium Wasagasse in Vienna and studied at the Czech National Film School and at The Royal College of Art's Department of Film and Television, where he graduated in 1968 with a Master of Arts degree. Life and career Goldschmidt was born on 1 August 1943. He made documentary and fiction films for BBC Television, BBC Films, Granada Television, Granada Films, Associated Television, Thames Television, Channel 4, Film4 in the UK, and ZDF, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Österreichischer Rundfunk, SRG SSR idée suisse, France 3, Rai 1, Bavaria Film, on the European continent, and HBO Films in the United States. His award winning films as producer/director have included ''Just one Kid'' and ''It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow'' (writer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Goldschmidt
Jakob Goldschmidt (also Jacob Goldschmidt; born 31 December 1882 in Eldagsen; died 23 September 1955 in New York) was a German-Jewish banker. Career Goldschmidt studied banking from H. Oppenheimer in Hanover. In 1907, he worked at the Nationalbank für Deutschland in Berlin. In 1909, Goldschmidt founded the private bank Schwarz. Goldschmidt held up to 123 supervisory board mandates, including in Ufa, founded in 1917, and IG Farben (1931–1932). Art Collector Goldschmidt's extensive art collection, which was auctioned off by the Nazis in the 1940s, has been the subject of restitution claims. In 1963, a Dutch court ruled that an Honore Daumier bronze sculpture, ''Ratiapil'', should be returned from a museum in Cologne. In 2002, the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt sought the return of a painting ''Portrait of a Young Girl in a Bow Window'', attributed to ''Nikolaus Alexander Mair von Landshut'' from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford Oxford () is a City status in the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
