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28 Goldschmidt, Otto Goldsmid

GOLDSCHMIDT, OTTO : German pianist and composer; born at Hamburg Aug. 31, 1829. He studied under Jacob Schmidt and P. W. Grund; with Hans von Balow under Mendelssohn at the Leipsic Conservatorium ; and in 1848 under Chopin in Paris. In 1849 he played at a concert given in Lon- don by Jennj'' Lind ; in 1851 he accompanied her on a tour through America ; and on Feb. 5, 1852, was married to her at Boston. Prom 1852 to 1855 they lived in Dresden, and from the latter year until Madame Goldschmidt's death (1887), in London and at Malvern, Worcestershire.

In 1861 Goldschmidt was elected an honorarj- member of the London Philharmonic Society; in 1863 he was appointed vice-principal of the Royal Academy of Music (London) ; in 1863 and 1866 he conducted musical festivals at Dusseldorf and Ham- burg respectively ; and in 1875 he foimded the Bach Choir in London.

His principal works are: "Ruth," an oratorio, performed at the Hereford musical festival of 1867 ; pianoforte concerto, op. 10; trio for pianoforte, op. 12; 12 studies for the same instrument, op. 13; 12 songs, op. 8, 9; and some part-songs. With Sir William Sterndale Bennett he edited " The Chorale Book for England. "

Bibliography : Blemann, Musik-Lexihnn ; Meyers Konver-

sations-Lexikon ; Grove, Diet, of ifustc amd Musieians.

s. A. P.

GOLDSCHMIDT, SIEGFEIED : German Ori- entalist ; born at Cassel Oct. 29, 1844 ; died at Stras- burg Jan. 31, 1884. He was educated at the universi- ties of Leipsic, Berlin, and Tubingen, graduating (Ph.D.) in 1867. His doctor's dissertation, "Der Vllte Prapathaka des SSmaveda-Arcika in der Nai- geya-Qakhit Nebst Andern Mitteilungen ilber Die- selbe," published in the " Monatsberichte der Konig- lichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften " (1868, pp. 228-248), was an edition of the single portion which has been preserved of the KSuthuma recension of the Sama-Veda. Goldschmidt contin- ued his studies, first at Gottingen and later in Paris, where he gained a thorough mastery of the Prench language. On the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war he returned to Germany and enrolled as a vol- unteer. He took ]3art in the siege of Paris. At the close of the war Goldschmidt was appointed assist- ant professor in the newly created University of Strasburg, with which he was connected during the remainder of his life. He became professor Sept. 12, 1881, but was fated never to sit in the faculty. Spinal consumption, the disease which ended his life, had already sapped his vitality, and after two and a half years of suffering death came as a welcome relief.

Siegfried Goldschmidt was not a prolific writer. He published but fourteen scientific studies, mostly short notes in ICuhn's " Zeitschrif t f lir Vergleichende Sprachforschung" and the " Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft." His interest was centered upon Prakrit, and brief as his articles were they formed valuable contributions to the investiga- tion of the medieval languages of India. His most important work was his edition of the great Prakrit poem ascribed to Kaiidasa, the Rfivanavaha or Sgtu- bandhu (Strasburg, 1880-84). This 'is in two vol- umes, the first of which comprises the text and an

index of the Prakrit words, in preparing which Siegfried was assisted by his brother Paul, while the second part contains the German translation. The only other book published by this scholar was a vol- ume of "Prfikrtica" (ib. 1879), containing gram- matical studies on Prakrit.

Bibliography : Literaturblatt fUr Orientalische BiUio-

graphU, 1. 379-380.

s. L. II. G.

GOLDSCHMIEDT, GUIDO: Austrian chem- ist ; born in Triest Oct. 5, 1850 ; studied at Vienna and Heidelberg. First as assistant, later as associ- ate professor at the chemical laboratory of Vienna University, he published a number of important articles on organic chemistry, for which he received the Lieben prize of the Imperial Academy of Sci- ences on different occasions. After a short activity as professor at the High School for Agriculture in Vienna, lie was called as professor to the univer- sity at Prague in 1892. He won distinction by his demonstration of the constitution of papaverin, of which he had made a thorough study. In con- junction with several of his pupils, as well as in- dependently, he published a large number of treatises on substances of the pyridin and quinolin order, be- sides essays in other departments of organic cliem- istry. The University of Prague elected him dean of the philosophical faculty in 1900. He is also a member of the council of the university and of the Imperial Academy of Sciences.

s. A. Ki.

GOLDSMID: A family of English financiers, who trace descent from a certain Uri ha-Levi of Em- den, as shown in the pedigree on opposite page.

The following were some of the prominent mem- bers of the family :

Aaron F. Goldsmid: London merchant and founder of the Goldsmid family of England ; born at Amsterdam ; died June 3, 1782. He was the son of Benedict Goldsmid, a Hamburg merchant. In 1765 he left Holland with his family to settle in London, where he founded the firm of Aaron Gold- smid & Son, subsequently Goldsmid & Eliason. The firm of Aaron Goldsmid & Son experienced seri- ous reverses through the failure of Clifford & Sayer, one of the principal houses in Holland. Hence only George, the eldest son, entered into partnership with his father. The other sons founded new businesses for themselves in which they amassed large fortunes. Goldsmid left four sons and four daughters. The second son, Asher, was one of the founders of the firm Mocatta & Goldsmid, bullion-brokers to the Bank of England. Benjamin and Abraham were famous as financiers and philanthropists. Bibliography : Levy Alexander, Memnirs of Beniamin Gold- smid of Roehampton, 1808; James Plcciotto, Slietches of Anglo-Jewish History.

J- I. H.

Abraham Goldsmid: English financier and philanthropist; born in Holland in 1756 (?); died at Morden, near London, Sept. 28, 1810 ; third son of Aaron Goldsmid. About 1765 he went to England with his father, and soon entered into partnership with his brother, Benjamin Goldsmid, the two starting in business as bill-brokers about 17V i. They afterward took a house in Capel street, and soon be- came successful bidders for the national loan. It