Arthur R.G. Solmssen

Arthur R.G. Solmssen (born September 29, 1928 in New York City[1] – April 23, 2018, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania[2]) 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.[1] 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.[1] He was called to the Pennsylvania Bar in 1953 and commenced working as a lawyer in Philadelphia. His professional affiliation is Of Counsel to Saul Ewing LLP.[3]

Solmssen has published several novels, the most famous of which is A Princess in Berlin (1980). Solmssen received the Athenaeum Literary Award for the novel.[4] A Princess in Berlin is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations.[5] Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library, among others.[6]

The Comfort Letter, Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.[7]

Solmssen is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintains an active association.[8]

He recently finished 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.

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 3 Profile of Arthur Solmssen; www.acamedia.info.
  2. ↑ "ARTHUR SOLMSSEN's Obituary on New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 2018-07-08.
  3. ↑ Martindale Lawyer Profile; www.martindale.com
  4. ↑ List of Athenaeum Award recipients; www.philaathenaeum.org.
  5. ↑ For example, Une princesse à Berlin, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1982.
  6. ↑ Arthur Solmssen German Wikipedia article; www.de.wikipedia.org.
  7. ↑ Richard W. Painter (University of Minnesota), "Irrationality and Cognitive Bias at a Closing in Arthur Solmssen's The Comfort Letter", 69 Fordham Law Review 1111 (2000) (Annual Ethics Symposium), reprinted in 34 Securities Law Review 285-311 (2002). Solmssen is also referenced by Richard H. Weisberg in "Wigmore and the Law and Literature Movement". Law and Literature 21:1 (Spring, 2009), 129-145; www.caliber.ucpress.net, with reference to John Wigmore.
  8. ↑ See Memories of Salzburg: Evening Social for Salsburg Global Fellows; www.salzburgglobal.org.
  9. ↑ Paperback edition by Hodder and Stoughton, 1970.
  10. ↑ Paperback edition by Pocket Books, 1973.
  11. ↑ Paperback editions by Ballantine Books, 1981; Penguin Books, 1982.
  12. ↑ Paperback edition by Mill Creek Press, 2000.
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