Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck (August 24, 1898 – August 8, 1982) born Rosa Goldschmidt, also known as Rosie Waldeck and by several other variants of her name, was the author of several works including ''Prelude to the past; the autobiography of a woman'' and ''Athene Palace''. The former narrates, among other things, the 1930 spy trial involving

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publisher

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(she was married at the time to Dr. Franz Ullstein, a son of

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); the latter narrates events in elite diplomatic circles in

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.Grand Hotel
''Time'', February 16, 1942. Accessed online 4 January 2006. Waldeck was a

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, who later became a

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and (on April 3, 1939) an

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. She was born into a banking family, and in 1920 received a doctorate in sociology from the

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, where she studied under

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. From the 1930s, she was based in the United States. She was in Bucharest from June 1940 to January 1941 as a correspondent for ''

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'': Her book ''Athene Palace'' narrates this sojourn; the title refers to the

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hotel, "short of one 'e' and of accents for no other reason than simplicity and readability." The surname ''Waldeck'' came from the German count Armin Wolrad Graf von Waldeck, who was at least her third husband. She was earlier married to German-born medical doctor and scientist

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and to the aforementioned Dr. Franz Ullstein.

Works

* ''Prelude to the past; the autobiography of a woman'' (1934) * ''Athene Palace'' (1942) * ''Meet Mr. Blank, The Leader of Tomorrow's Germans'' (1943) * ''Lustre in the Sky'' (1946) * ''The Emperor's Duchess'' (1948) * ''Europe Between The Acts'' (1951) :Source for list:Note on the site of Romanian publisher Humanitas
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