Meïr Aron Goldschmidt

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.

In 1837 he founded Præstø Amts Tidende which in 1839 merged with Callundborg Ugeblad to become Sjællandsposten. He sold that in 1840 and in the same year founded the weekly political and satirical Corsaren where, under the cover of different editors, he criticised the king. As the real editor, he was sentenced to prison and a fined with future censorship on June 7, 1843, in the Supreme Court. In 1846 Goldschmidt sold Corsaren.

Goldschmidt had previously praised Søren Kierkegaard for his Either/Or, but the friendship was destroyed after continued attack on Kierkegaard appeared in Corsar. From 1847 until 1859 he ran a political magazine called Nord og Syd. To broaden his horizons culturally and politically, Meïr Aron Goldschmidt visited Germany, Austria, Italy and Switzerland.

Personal life He was married to Johanne Marie Sonne (1825–1900). The marriage dissolved in 1852. From this short-lived marriage he had a son in 1846 and a daughter in 1848.

Selected works Jacob Bendixen, the Jew (1864 ) : English translation of Jøde. He published several novels. He also wrote a few dramas, and an autobiography : 1845 - En Jøde, published under the pseudonym Adolph Meyer 1853–1857 - Hjemløs 1865 - Arvingen 1867 - Ravnen ("The Raven")