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{{Short description|German Indologist (1844–1884)}}
{{for|the Danish businessman|Sigfred Goldschmidt}}
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| name=Siegfried Goldschmidt
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| birth_name=Siegfried Samson Goldschmidt
| birth_date={{birth date|1844|10|29|df=y}}
| birth_place=[[Kassel|Cassel]], [[Grand Duchy of Hesse|Hesse]], [[German Confederation]]
| death_date={{death date and age|1884|01|31|1844|10|29|df=y}}
| death_place=[[Strasbourg|Strasburg]], [[Alsace–Lorraine]], [[German Empire]]
| burial_place={{ill|Kassel Jewish Cemetery|de|Jüdischer Friedhof Kassel}}
| spouse=Anna Meyer
| alma_mater = [[University of Tübingen]]
| thesis_title = Der VII{{sup|te}} Prapâṭhaka des Sâmaveda-Ârcika in der Naigeya-Çakhâ Nebst Andern Mitteilungen über Dieselbe
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| thesis_year = 1868
| doctoral_advisor = [[Rudolf von Roth]]{{r|knuppel}}
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| discipline = [[Indology]]
| workplaces = [[University of Strasbourg|University of Strasburg]]
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'''Siegfried Samson Goldschmidt''' (29 October 1844 – 31 January 1884) was a German [[Indology|Indologist]]. His interest was centered upon [[Prakrit]] grammar and vocabulary, and his articles formed valuable contributions to the investigation of [[middle Indo-Aryan languages]].

==Biography==
Siegfried Goldschmidt was born in [[Kassel|Cassel]], Germany, the youngest child of [[Jews|Jewish]] court banker Philipp Samson Goldschmidt and his wife Minna ({{nee|Hertz}}).{{r|karttunen}} After Philipp's death in 1846, Goldschmidt's mother married {{ill|Jeremias Rothfels|qid=Q55846112}}, with whom she had one child, lawyer {{ill|Max Rothfels|de}} (father of [[Hans Rothfels]]).

Goldschmidt was educated at the [[Gymnasium (school)|gymnasium]] in Cassel, before studying philosophy and (mostly [[Sanskrit]]) philology the [[Leipzig University|Universities of Leipzig]], [[Humboldt University of Berlin|Berlin]], and [[University of Tübingen|Tübingen]], graduating with a Ph.D. on 20 August 1867.{{r|knuppel}} His doctor's dissertation, "Der VII{{sup|te}} Prapâṭhaka des Sâmaveda-Ârcika in der Naigeya-Çakhâ Nebst Andern Mitteilungen über Dieselbe", published in the ''Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften'' (1868, pp. 228–248), was an edition of the single portion which has been preserved of the Kâuthuma recension of the [[Samaveda]]. Goldschmidt continued his studies, first at [[Göttingen]] and later in [[Paris]], where he gained a thorough mastery of the French language.{{r|klatt}}

On the outbreak of the [[Franco-Prussian War]] he returned to Germany and volunteered for military service. He took part in the [[Siege of Paris (1870–1871)|Siege of Paris]]. At the close of the war Goldschmidt was appointed [[assistant professor]] in the newly Germanified [[University of Strasbourg|University of Strasburg]], with which he was connected during the remainder of his short life. He became [[professor]] on 12 September 1881, but soon had to discontinue his teaching activities as a result of [[Pott disease|spinal tuberculosis]], which he contracted the previous summer. The illness progressed slowly until his death on 31 January 1884 at the age of 39.{{r|klatt}}

==Work==
Siegfried Goldschmidt published only fourteen academic studies, mostly short notes in [[Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn|Kuhn]]'s ''[[Historische Sprachforschung|Zeitschrift für Vergleichende Sprachforschung]]'' and the ''[[Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft]]''. His most important work was his edition of the great Prakrit poem ascribed to [[Kalidasa|Kâlidâsa]], the ''Sêtubandhu'' ('Building of the Bridge') or ''Râvaṇavaha'' ('Death of [[Ravana]]'), which describes the construction of a bridge of boats across the [[Jhelum River|Vitasta]] by a king of [[Kashmir]].{{r|choudhuri}} This is in two volumes, the first of which comprises the text and an index of the Prakrit words, in preparing which Siegfried was assisted by his brother Paul, while the second part contains the German translation. The only other book published by this scholar was a volume of ''Prâkṛtica'', containing grammatical studies on Prakrit.{{r|JE}}

==Selected publications==
* {{cite journal|title=Der VII{{sup|te}} Prapâṭhaka des Sâmaveda-Ârcika in der Naigeya-Çâkhâ nebst andern Mitteilungen über dieselbe|url=http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/11023311/ft/bsb10533219?page=238|journal=Monatsberichte der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften|language=de|last=Goldschmidt|first=Siegfried|date=1868|pages=228–248}}{{r|JE}}
* {{cite book|title=Prâkṛtica|location=Strasbourg|language=de|author-mask=10|publisher=Verlag von Karl J. Trübner|date=1879|last=Siegfried|first=Goldtschmidt|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044092189752}}{{r|JE}}
* {{cite book|title=Rāvaṇavaha oder Setubandha|volume=1|location=Strasbourg|language=de|author-mask=10|publisher=Verlag von Karl J. Trübner|date=1880|last=Siegfried|first=Goldschmidt|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$c234198}}{{r|JE}}
* {{cite book|title=Rāvaṇavaha oder Setubandha|volume=2|location=Strasbourg|language=de|author-mask=10|publisher=Verlag von Karl J. Trübner|date=1884|last=Goldtschmidt|first=Siegfried|url=https://archive.org/details/ravanavahorvan02pravuoft}}{{r|JE}}

==References==
{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Goldschmidt, Siegfried|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6763-goldschmidt-siegfried|first1=Isidore|last1=Singer|first2=Louis H.|last2=Gray|volume=6|page=28}}
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=JE>{{Jewish Encyclopedia|article=Goldschmidt, Siegfried|url=https://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/6763-goldschmidt-siegfried|first1=Isidore|last1=Singer|first2=Louis H.|last2=Gray|volume=6|page=28|no-prescript=1}}</ref>
<ref name=karttunen>{{cite web|first=Klaus|last=Karttunen|title=Goldschmidt, Siegfried|website=Who Was Who of Indian Studies|date=2017|url=https://whowaswho-indology.info/2324/goldschmidt-siegfried/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210412031126/https://whowaswho-indology.info/2324/goldschmidt-siegfried/|archive-date=12 April 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=knuppel>{{cite journal|title=Der Indologe Siegfried S. Goldschmidt (1844–1884) – ein vergessener Sohn der Stadt Kassel|first=Michael|last=Knüppel|language=de|journal=Zeitschrift des Vereins für hessische Geschichte und Landeskunde|volume=119|date=2014|pages=171–176|url=https://www.vhghessen.de/inhalt/zhg/ZHG_119/Knueppel_Indologe_Goldschmidt.pdf}}</ref>
<ref name=klatt>{{cite journal|title=Siegfried Goldschmidt|journal=Literaturblatt für Orientalische Bibliographie|volume=1|last=Klatt|first=Johannes|date=1883–1884|pages=379–380|location=Leipzig|publisher=Otto Schulze|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.106737/page/n379/mode/2up}}</ref>
<ref name=choudhuri>{{cite book|title=An Outline of the History of Sanskrit Literature|first=Tarinicharan|last=Choudhuri|edition=2nd|publisher=C. Chatterjee & Co.|location=Calcutta|date=1916|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ltZHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA101}}</ref>
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