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 orde ...

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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 ...

". It may refer to: * Adalbert von Goldschmidt (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, Ge ...

(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 hi ...

(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, British statistician * David M. Goldschmidt (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 I ...

(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 fa ...

(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 be ...

(1861–1923), chemist, son of Theodor Goldschmidt *

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 Jew ...

, born Hans Goldschmidt (1930–2004), American Olympic foil and épée fencer * Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt (1857–1937), Austrian chemist, father of Victor Moritz Goldschmidt, 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 (1897–1980), artist * Jakob Goldschmidt (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 (1871–1950), German writer and translator * Levin Goldschmidt (1829–1897), jurist * Márcia Goldschmidt (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 (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 Transportat ...

(born 1940), U.S. politician * Nicholas Goldschmidt (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 w ...

(1829–1907), German composer * Pascal Goldschmidt (–), 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, Golds ...

(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 founde ...

(born 1963), Chief Rabbi of Moscow and President of the CER * Richard Benedikt Goldschmidt (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 ...

(1876–1950), engineer and inventor * Samuel Goldschmidt (), German banker in Berlin * Siegfried Goldschmidt (1844–1884), German Indologist * Theodor Goldschmidt (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). G ...

(born 1953), Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist * Victor Mordechai Goldschmidt (1853–1933), chemist * Victor Moritz Goldschmidt (1888–1947), geochemist, considered the founder of modern geochemistry. Son of Heinrich Jacob Goldschmidt, Austrian chemist * Victor Goldschmidt (philosopher) (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 Goldschmid ...

* 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), siderophi ...

(geochemistry) *

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, American science award in geochemistry {{surname Surnames Occupational surnames German-language surnames Jewish surnames Yiddish-language surnames