Goldschmidt is a

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 " Western or ...

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Goldsmith A goldsmith is a metalworker who specializes in working with gold and other precious metals. Nowadays they mainly specialize in jewelry-making but historically, goldsmiths have also made silverware, platters, goblets, decorative and servicea ...

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Adalbert von Goldschmidt Adalbert von Goldschmidt (5 May 1848, Vienna - 21 December 1906, Vienna) was an Austrian composer, poet and satirist of Jewish origin. Being a friend of Hugo Wolf and Anton Bruckner and trained at the Vienna Conservatory, he first drew wide accl ...

(1848-1906), composer *

Adolph Goldschmidt Adolph Goldschmidt (15 January 1863 – 5 January 1944) was a Jewish German art historian. He taught at University of Berlin from 1892 to 1903, and University of Halle from 1904 to 1912. Biography He was born on 15 January 1863 in Hamburg, ...

(1863–1944), art historian *

Adolphe Goldschmidt Adolphe Benedict Hayum Goldschmidt (1838, Frankfurt – 6 April 1918, London) was co-inheritor of the Goldschmidt family bank in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Life His father was Benedikt Hayum Goldschmidt, founder of the bank and consul to th ...

(1838–1918), German-British banker *

Berthold Goldschmidt Berthold Goldschmidt (18 January 190317 October 1996) was a German Jewish composer who spent most of his life in England. The suppression of his work by Nazi Germany, as well as the disdain with which many Modernist critics elsewhere dismissed h ...

(1903–1996), composer *

Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt Carl Wolfgang Benjamin Goldschmidt (4 August 1807 – 15 February 1851) was a German astronomer, mathematician, and physicist of Jewish descent who was a professor of astronomy at the University of Göttingen. He is also known as Benjamin Goldsch ...

(1807-1851), astronomer, mathematician, and physicist *

Christina Goldschmidt Christina Anna Goldschmidt is a British probabilist known for her work in probability theory including coalescent theory, random minimum spanning trees, and the theory of random graphs. She is professor of probability in the department of statisti ...

, British statistician *

David M. Goldschmidt David M. Goldschmidt (born 21 May 1942, New York City) is an American mathematician specializing in group theory. Goldschmidt received in 1969 from the University of Chicago a Ph.D. under John Griggs Thompson with thesis ''On the 2-exponent of a ...

(born 1942), American mathematician *

Elisabeth Goldschmidt Elisabeth Goldschmidt (; September 22, 1912 – May 6, 1970) was a German-born Israeli geneticist who founded the genetics program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She has been described as "the founding mother of the field of genetics in Is ...

(1912–1970), Israeli geneticist *

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin. Biography Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism. His fat ...

(born 1928), French writer and translator of German origin *

Hans Goldschmidt Johannes Wilhelm "Hans" Goldschmidt (18 January 1861 – 21 May 1923) was a German chemist notable as the discoverer of the Thermite reaction. He was also co-owner of the Chemische Fabrik Th. Goldschmidt, as of 1911 Th. Goldschmidt AG (later to ...

(1861–1923), chemist, son of

Theodor Goldschmidt Carl Theodor Wilhelm Goldschmidt (4 June 1817 – 4 January 1875) was a German entrepreneur and chemist. Goldschmidt was born in Berlin. He studied chemistry at the University of Berlin, and then trained as a colorist, a specialist in dyeing ...

Harold Goldsmith Harold David Goldsmith (born Hans Goldschmidt), known as Hal (July 20, 1930 – March 13, 2004) was an American Olympic foil and epee fencer. Early and personal life Goldsmith was born in Gensungen, Felsberg, Hessen, Germany, and was J ...

, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer *

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 th ...

(1857–1937), Austrian chemist, father of

Victor Moritz Goldschmidt Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (27 January 1888 in Zürich – 20 March 1947 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mineralogist considered (together with Vladimir Vernadsky) to be the founder of modern geochemistry and crystal chemistry, developer of the G ...

, founder of modern geochemistry *

Hermann Goldschmidt Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – August 30 or September 10 1866) was a German-French astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous Fren ...

(1802–1866), astronomer and painter *

Hilde Goldschmidt Hilde Goldschmidt (7 September 1897 – 7 August 1980) was a German expressionist painter and printmaker. Facing persecution under the Nazi regime, she sought refuge in Britain during the Second World War before establishing herself in Austria i ...

(1897–1980), artist *

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 National B ...

(1882-1955), German banker *

John Goldschmidt John Goldschmidt (born 1943) is 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 studied ...

(born 1943), film director and producer *

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 ...

(1871–1950), German writer and translator *

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 P ...

(1829–1897), jurist *

Márcia Goldschmidt Márcia von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, best known as Márcia Goldschmidt (born July 22, 1962) is a Brazilian television presenter, writer, digital influencer, YouTuber and businesswoman. Personal life Goldschmidt-Rothschild was born into a humbl ...

(1962), Brazilian TV presenter *

Marie Goldschmidt Marie Goldschmidt aka Mme. (Gustave) Goldschmidt born Marie Kann (1890–1917) 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 Intern ...

(1890–1917), French aeronaut *

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt Rabbi Meir ( he, רַבִּי מֵאִיר) was a Jewish sage who lived in the time of the Mishnah. He was considered one of the greatest of the Tannaim of the fourth generation (139-163). He is the third most frequently mentioned sage in the Mishn ...

(1819–1887), publisher and writer *

Neil Goldschmidt Neil Edward Goldschmidt (born June 16, 1940) is an American businessman and Democratic politician from the state of Oregon who held local, state and federal offices over three decades. After serving as the United States Secretary of Transportati ...

(born 1940), U.S. politician *

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- ...

(1908-2004), conductor, artistic director *

Otto Goldschmidt Otto Moritz David Goldschmidt (21 August 1829 – 24 February 1907) was a German composer, conductor and pianist, known for his piano concertos and other piano pieces. He married the "Swedish Nightingale", soprano Jenny Lind. Life Goldschmidt ...

(1829–1907), German composer *

Pascal Goldschmidt Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont is a Belgian-American cardiologist and cardiovascular researcher, and former dean of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Until January 2016 he also served as chief executive officer of the ...

(–), cardiologist, and dean of University of Miami School of Medicine *

Paul Goldschmidt Paul Edward Goldschmidt (born September 10, 1987) is an American professional baseball first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals of Major League Baseball (MLB). Lightly recruited out of The Woodlands High School in The Woodlands, Texas, Goldsch ...

(born 1987), American baseball player *

Pinchas Goldschmidt Pinchas Goldschmidt (born 21 July 1963) is a Swiss-born, internationally known rabbi, scholar, and Jewish community leader. He was the Chief Rabbi of Moscow, Russia from 1993 until 2022, serving at the Moscow Choral Synagogue. He also founded ...

(born 1963), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the CER *

Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt Richard Benedict Goldschmidt (April 12, 1878 – April 24, 1958) was a German-born American geneticist. He is considered the first to attempt to integrate genetics, development, and evolution. He pioneered understanding of reaction norms, gene ...

(1878–1958), geneticist *

Robert Goldschmidt Robert B. Goldschmidt (1877–1935) was a Belgian chemist, physicist, and engineer who first proposed the idea of standardized microfiche (microfilm). Goldschmidt was a polymath who also made advances in aviation and radio, among other fields. ...

(1877–1935), Belgian physicist *

Rudolf Goldschmidt Rudolf Goldschmidt (1876—1950) was a German engineer and inventor, best known for the development of the Goldschmidt alternator radio transmitter, and the tone wheel receiver. Biography Early life Goldschmidt was born on March 19, 1876 in Ne ...

(1876–1950), engineer and inventor *

Samuel Goldschmidt Samuel ''Šəmūʾēl'', Tiberian Hebrew, Tiberian: ''Šămūʾēl''; ar, شموئيل or صموئيل '; el, Σαμουήλ ''Samouḗl''; la, Samūēl is a figure who, in the narratives of the Hebrew Bible, plays a key role in the transit ...

(), German banker in Berlin *

Siegfried Goldschmidt Siegfried Samson Goldschmidt (29 October 1844 – 31 January 1884) was a German Indologist. His interest was centered upon Prakrit grammar and vocabulary, and his articles formed valuable contributions to the investigation of middle Indo-Aryan ...

(1844–1884), German Indologist *

(1817–1875), chemist *

Tijs Goldschmidt Paul-Tijs (Tijs) Goldschmidt (born 30 January 1953 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist. Since 1 March 2012, Goldschmidt is writer in residence of the Artis Bibliotheek, which is part of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). ...

(born 1953), Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist *

Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (10 February 1853 in Mainz – 8 May 1933 in Salzburg) was a German mineralogist, natural philosopher, and art collector. Life Born 1853 in Mainz, Goldschmidt attended the Bergakademie Freiberg in Saxony and gradu ...

(1853–1933), chemist *

(1888–1947), geochemist, considered the founder of modern geochemistry. Son of

, Austrian chemist *

Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher) Victor Goldschmidt (1914 – 25 September 1981) was a French philosopher and historian of philosophy. Born in Germany, he came to France in 1933. Before the war he studied at the Sorbonne and at the École pratique des hautes études under He ...

(1914–1981), French historian of philosophy

Similar names

Goldschmidt family The Goldschmidt family is a family of German Jewish descent, originally from Frankfurt am Main, known for their success in banking. With origins tracing back to the 15th century, most members were forced to leave Frankfurt after the 1614 Fettmil ...

Goldschmid Goldschmid is a German surname meaning "gold smith". Notable people with the surname include: * Harvey Goldschmid, law professor at Columbia University * David Goldschmid See also * Goldschmid * Goldschmidt * Goldschmied * Goldschmitt * Goldsmi ...

Goldschmied Goldschmied is a Swiss - German surname meaning "Gold smith". It may refer to: * Elinor Goldschmied (1910–2009), British educationalist * José Goldschmied *Marco Goldschmied (1944–2022), British architect ;See also: * Goldschmid * Goldschmi ...

Goldschmitt Goldschmitt is a German surname meaning "goldsmith". It may refer to: * Daniel Goldschmitt (born 1989), German footballer * ''The Family Goldschmitt'' (1971), a poem collection by Henri Coulette See also * Goldschmid * Goldschmidt * Goldschmie ...

* Goldsmid *

Aurifaber Aurifaber (the Latinized form of the German surname "Goldschmidt" or "Goldschmied" meaning "gold smith") was a surname borne by three prominent men of the Reformation period in Germany: *Andreas Aurifaber (1514–1559), physician from Breslau, ...

Geochemistry

Goldschmidt classification The Goldschmidt classification, developed by Victor Goldschmidt (1888–1947), is a geochemical classification which groups the chemical elements within the Earth according to their preferred host phases into lithophile ( rock-loving), siderophil ...

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Goldschmidt tolerance factor Goldschmidt's tolerance factor (from the German word ''Toleranzfaktor'') is an indicator for the stability and distortion of crystal structures. It was originally only used to describe the perovskite ABO3 structure, but now tolerance factors are a ...

(geochemistry) *

V. M. Goldschmidt Award The V. M. Goldschmidt Award is an award given by the Geochemical Society at the V. M. Goldschmidt Conference for achievements in the fields of geochemistry and cosmochemistry. The award in honor of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, a pioneer in both ...

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