Arthur R.G. Solmssen

Arthur R.G. Solmssen (September 29, 1928 in New York City – April 23, 2018, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania ) was an American lawyer and novelist.

History Arthur R.G. Solmssen spent his early childhood in Berlin, and his adolescence and later youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia. His ancestor was the German banker Joseph Mendelssohn. He studied at Harvard University, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1950, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he completed his law degree in 1953.

Solmssen published several novels, the most famous of which is A Princess in Berlin (1980). Solmssen received the Athenaeum Literary Award for the novel. A Princess in Berlin is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations, such as Une princesse à Berlin, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1982. Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library, among others.

The Comfort Letter, Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.

Solmssen was a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintained an active association.

He also wrote a book about German Luftwaffe pilot and general officer Ernst Udet.

Solmssen has three sons, Peter York Solmssen, Kurt A. Solmssen, and A.R.G. Solmssen Junior.