Arthur Goldhammer (born November 17, 1946) is an American academic and translator.
Goldhammer studied mathematics at MIT, gaining his PhD in 1973.
[1] He is based at the Center for European Studies at Harvard.
[2][3] Goldhammer is a four-time winner of the French-American Foundation translation prize,[4] including for his translations of Alexis de Tocqueville's The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution and Democracy in America.
[5] Goldhammer's translation of Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century became a New York Times best-seller.