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Hu remained there for two years, and then made a four 3'ears' tour through Austria and Germany, officiating in some of the largest congregations. Upon his return an admirer of his voice sent him to Vienna to be educated for the stage. On tlie com- pletion of his course, and when about to enter upon his first engagement in Florence, he decided to re- turn to the position of cantor, and received an ap- pointment at the Leopoldstadter Tempel in Vienna in 1857, retaining the position until his death. Among Goldstein's published works are: "Shire Teshurun," a collection of songs for the Sabbath and festival service, 1866; a requiem, 1892; a col- lection of " Festgesange."

Bibliography : Die Neuzeit ; Ungarische Cantorenzeitutig, June, 1809. s. A. Kai.

GOLDSTEIIT, JOSEPH: Political economist and statistician; born in Odessa, Russia, Jan. 9, 1869. After completing his studies at the gymna- sium of his native town, he entered the technolog- ical institute in Carlsruhe, Baden, and took a diploma as chemist. He next studied political economy at the University of Munich, graduating (Ph.D.) in 1895. He continued his studies in England and France until 1898, when he was appointed privat- docent in political science at the University of Zurich. In 1899 and 1900 he revisited France arid England, and went to Russia in the winter of 1901- 1902, when he submitted to the Russian minister of commerce, W. Kowalewski, and to the minister of finance, at the request of the former, an expert opin- ion with reference to the renewal of the commercial treaty between Germany and Russia. Before re- turning he took the degree of A.M. at tlie Univer- sity of Moscow, which practically conferred upon him the right to lecture in any university in Russia.

Goldstein's " Deutschlands Sodaindustiie in Ver- gangenheit und GegenM'art, " Stuttgart, 1895, occa- sioned the introduction of a bill by the German gov- ernment effecting a 50 percent reduction in the duty on soda. Among his other works may be men- tioned: "Berufsgliederung und Reichthum in Eng- land," inaugural dissertation, 1897; "Die Zukunft Deutschlands im Lichle der Agrarischen Beweis- f uhrung, " 1898 ; " Die Vermeintlichen und die Wirk- liohen Ursachen des Bevolkerungsstillstandes in Frankreich," 1898; "Die Statistik und Ihre Bedeu- tung filr das Moderne Gesellschaftsleben," 1899; "BevOlkerungsprobleme und Berufsgliederung in Franlireich, " 1900 ; " Gewerbefreiheit und Ihre Licht- und Schattenseiten," 1901.

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GOLDSTEIN, MICHAEL YULYEVICH: Russian chemist; born at Odessa 1853; educated in the Richelieu Gymnasium of Odessa, and graduated from the Medico-Surgical Academy of St. Peters- burg. In 1877 he went abroad and obtained the degree of doctor of philosophy. On his return he became assistant in chemistry in the St. ' Peters- burg medical academy. In 1880 Goldstein jiassed the examination for master of chemistry, and in 1890 obtained his degree, his dissertation being on the rise of salt-solutions in capillary tubes, " Materialy K Voprosu o Vysotakh," etc. In 1891 he became privat-docent in theoretical and physical chemistry

at the University of St. Petersburg, but in 1901 was compelled, by circumstances of a political nature, to discontinue his lectures. The researches of Gold- stein, mostly in theoretical and physical chemistry, have been published in the following magazines: " Zhurnal-Russkavo Fisiko-Khiraicheskavo Obsh- chestva"; "Berichteder Deutschen Chemischen Ge- sellschaft " ; " Annales de Chimie et Physique " ; and " Zeitschrif t f ur Physikalische Chemie." Goldstein also published in the " Nauchnoe Obozryenie " for 1898-99 a portion of his work, " Elementy Filosofii Chimii," on the elements of chemical philosophy; and, between 1894 and 1900, under the pseudonym "Cardanus," several articles in the "Novosti." He has published in book form " Zhivoye i Mortvoe " (Living and Dead) and " O Pisicheskom Dukhovnom Vospitanii" (On Physical and Intellectual Educa- tion). He has translated into Russian Daneman's sketches of the history of natural science, published with supplementary notes in "Mir Bozhi," 1897. At present he is the editor of the department of physics, chemistry, and technology of the "Bol- shaya Entziklopedia. "

BiBLiOGKAPHT : Bulshaya Entziklnpedia, Wl., St. Petersburg, 1903. H. R. J. G. L.

GOLDSTtJCKEB, THEODOB : German San- skritist ; born at KOnigsberg, Prussia, Jan. 18, 1821 ; died in London March 6, 1873. In 1840 he gained his degree of Ph.D. at K5nigsberg University, where he first studied Sanskrit under Bohlen, con- tinuing his studies in that language at Bonn and Paris. In 1843 he published a German translation of the Sanskrit drama "Prabodha-Chandrodaya " At Paris he collected materials for an extensive work on Indian philosophy and for a new edition of the great epic poem " Mahabharata. " In 1850 he went to England, where he assisted Professor Wilson in preparing a new edition of his Sanskrit-English dic- tionary. This edition outgrew all practicable pro- portions, and, having reached page 480 without completing the first letter of the alphabet, it was abandoned.

Goldstiicker was professor of Sanskrit at Univer- sity College, London, from 1851 until his death, and was the chief founder of the Sanskrit Text Society, established in 1866. He was also president of the Philological Society, and was well known in many of the literary societies of London. He left an edi- tion of the "Nyaya-mala-Vistara," an important work on mimansa philosophy, and an edition of the " Mahabhashya, " the well-known commentary on Panini's grammar (London, 1874); he had previously written a monograph on Panini (1861). Prom 1863 to 1868 Goldstiicker was a contributor to " Chambers' Encyclopffidia " and the "Westminster Review." His essays were collected under the title " Literary Remains," 1879.

Birliooraphy: GnldstUcTfer's LUerarii Remains, 1879: The Times, London, March 13 and U, 1872; Diet. Nat. Biog.; Meyers Konversatioms-Lexlkmi.

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GOLDSZMIDT, JOSEPH: Polish lawyer; born at Hrubieszow, government of Lublin, 1846; died 1896; graduate of the University of War- saw. He wrote: " Wizerunki Wslawionych Zydow