Ulrich K. Goldsmith

Ulrich Karl Goldsmith was an American scholar of literature and emeritus professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Biography

Ulrich Karl Goldsmith was born on January 19, 1910, in Freiburg and had to leave Germany in 1932-1933 because of his Jewish origins and Nazi persecution. He came to the United States via England and Canada and received B. A. and M. A. degrees from the University of Toronto, and earned his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950, with a dissertation on Stefan George. He was appointed professor of Germanic languages and literatures at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1957, later emeritus. He died in Boulder, Colorado on May 2, 2000, aged 90.
He chaired there the department of Germanic languages and literatures and later co-founded and chaired the program in comparative literature. He was a well-known scholar on Stefan George and Rainer Maria Rilke.