Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt


Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt is a French writer and translator of German origin.

Biography

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born, Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism. His father was an adviser to the Hamburg Court of Appeal until 1933. He was deported to Theresienstadt where he served as Protestant pastor of Protestant Jews deported because of their origin. Georges-Arthur had to flee Nazism in 1938. He took refuge in Italy with his brother, then in France, in a very strict boarding school in Megève. From 1943 to September 1944, he was hidden in Haute-Savoie among farmers, particularly François and Olga Allard, who were honored on August 6, 2012 as Righteous Among the Nations. He obtained French nationality in 1949. He was a professor until 1992. He taught at Lycée Paul Eluard for 19 years.
A writer and essayist, he chose French as a language of expression and writing, without abandoning German. He is a translator, among others, of Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka and Peter Handke.

Prizes and distinctions

[Walter Benjamin]

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