Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt (born 2 May 1928) is a French writer and translator of German origin.

Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt was born in Reinbek near Hamburg, into a Jewish family of magistrates converted to Protestantism.

From 1943 to September 1944, he was hidden in Haute-Savoie among farmers, particularly François and Olga Allard, who were honoured on August 6, 2012 as Righteous Among the Nations.

[2] A writer and essayist, Goldschmidt chose French as a language of expression and writing, without abandoning German.

He is a translator, among others, of Walter Benjamin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Franz Kafka and Peter Handke.