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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Meïr Aaron Goldschmidt (1819–1887)

Goldschmidt, Meïr Aaron (gōlt’shmit). A Danish novelist and publicist; born in Vordingborg, Oct. 26, 1819; died at Copenhagen, Aug. 15, 1887. ‘A Jew’ and ‘Homeless’ are among the novels to which his international reputation is due. His later years were spent in an exhaustive investigation into the state of public education throughout Europe. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).