Meïr Aron Goldschmidt
Danish publisher, journalist and novelist (1819–1887)
Meïr Aron Goldschmidt (October 26, 1819 – August 15, 1887) was a Danish publisher, journalist and novelist. He was the founding editor of
the satirical and political magazine Corsaren.
Biography
Goldschmidt was born in Vordingborg, Denmark but raised in Copenhagen. He was the son of Aron Goldschmidt (1792–1848) and Lea Levin Rothschild (1797–1870). He belonged to a strictly Orthodox Jewish family of merchants.
He attended the University of Copenhagen where one of his instructors was the Danish theologist Henrik Nicolai Clausen (1793–1877). He took artium in 1836, graduating with a degree in philology. His meeting with classical Greek culture changed much of his attitude and made him try to balance between Jewish and non-Jewish thoughts. Especially the Greek idea of Nemesis impressed him and imbued much of his later works.
In 1837 he founded Præstø Amts Tidende which in 1839 merged with Callundborg Ugeblad to become Sjællandsposten.
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