Arthur R.G. Solmssen (September 29, 1928 in
New York City
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[Profile of Arthur Solmssen]
www.acamedia.info. – April 23, 2018,
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
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) was an American lawyer and novelist.
History
Arthur R.G. Solmssen spent his early childhood in
Berlin
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, and his adolescence and later youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
[ His uncle was German banker Georg Solmssen, his ancestor was the German banker ]Joseph Mendelssohn
Joseph Mendelssohn (11 August 1770 – 24 November 1848) was a German Jews, German Jewish banker.
He was the eldest son of the influential philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. In 1795, he founded his own banking house. In 1804, his younger brother, Ab ...
. He studied at Harvard University
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, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950, and the University of Pennsylvania
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, where he completed his law degree in 1953.[ He was called to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1953 and commenced working as a lawyer in Philadelphia. His professional affiliation is ]Of Counsel
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to Saul Ewing LLP.
Solmssen published several novels, the most famous of which is '' A Princess in Berlin'' (1980). Solmssen received the Athenaeum Literary Award for the novel. ''A Princess in Berlin'' is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic
The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...
, and has been the subject of multiple translations. Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library
The German National Library (DNB; ) is the central archival library and national bibliographic centre for the Federal Republic of Germany. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its task is to collect, permanently archive, comprehens ...
, among others.
''The Comfort Letter'', Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.
Solmssen was a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar
Salzburg Global (formerly known as Salzburg Global Seminar) is a non-profit organization that convenes programs on its five pillar topics of Peace and Justice, Education, Culture, Health, and Finance and Governance. Programs regularly occur at Sc ...
, with which he maintained an active association.
He recently finished a book about German Luftwaffe
The Luftwaffe () was the aerial warfare, aerial-warfare branch of the before and during World War II. German Empire, Germany's military air arms during World War I, the of the Imperial German Army, Imperial Army and the of the Imperial Ge ...
pilot and general officer Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II.
Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service in April 1915 at the age of 19 ...
.
Solmssen has three sons, Peter York Solmssen
Kurt A. Solmssen
and A.R.G. Solmssen Junior.
Bibliography
* 1969 ''Rittenhouse Square'' ()
* 1971
Alexander's Feast
'
* 1975 ''The Comfort Letter'' (Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is an American publishing company founded in 1837 by Charles Coffin Little and James Brown in Boston. For close to two centuries, it has published fiction and nonfiction by American authors. Early lists featured Emil ...
)
* 1980 '' A Princess in Berlin'' (Little, Brown and Company)
* 1986 ''Takeover Time'' (Little, Brown and Company)
* 2000 ''The Wife of Shore: A Search''[Paperback edition by Mill Creek Press, 2000.]
References
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1928 births
2018 deaths
20th-century American novelists
American male novelists
Pennsylvania lawyers
Lawyers from New York City
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
Lawyers from Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Law School alumni
Harvard University alumni
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from New York (state)
Writers from New York City
German Lutherans
American Lutherans
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century Lutherans