Ulrich K. Goldsmith

Ulrich Karl Goldsmith (January 19, 1910 – May 2, 2000) was an American scholar of literature and emeritus professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Biography Ulrich Karl Goldsmith was born on January 19, 1910, in Freiburg (Black Forest) and had to leave Germany in 1932-1933 because of his Jewish origins and Nazi persecution. He came to the United States via England and Canada and received B. A. and M. A. degrees (in 1942 and 1946 respectively) from the University of Toronto,

He chaired there the department of Germanic languages and literatures and later co-founded and chaired the program in comparative literature. He was a well-known scholar on Stefan George and Rainer Maria Rilke.