Arthur R.G. Solmssen (September 29, 1928 in New York CityProfile of Arthur Solmssen; www.acamedia.info. – April 23, 2018, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania) 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.
Solmssen was the grandson of , nephew of Georg Solmssen and great-great-nephew of Adolph Salomonsohn. His ancestor was the German banker Joseph Mendelssohn. 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. 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.Martindale Lawyer Profile; www.martindale.com
Solmssen published several novels, the most famous of which is A Princess in Berlin (1980). Solmssen received the Athenaeum Literary Award for the novel.List of Athenaeum Award recipients ; www.philaathenaeum.org. A Princess in Berlin is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations, such as Une princesse à Berlin, Éditions Robert Laffont, 1982. Solmssen's works are catalogued by the German National Library, among others.
The Comfort Letter, Solmssen's 1975 novel concerning ethics and assurances in public offerings, has been the subject of contemporary academic analysis in law.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.
Solmssen was a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintained an active association.See ; www.SalzburgGlobal.org. Archived from the original 2012-09-12.
He also wrote 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 1969 Rittenhouse Square (Hodder & Stoughton)Paperback edition by Hodder and Stoughton, 1970. 1971 Alexander's FeastPaperback edition by Pocket Books, 1973. 1975 The Comfort Letter (Little, Brown and Company) 1980 A Princess in Berlin (Little, Brown and Company)Paperback editions by Ballantine Books, 1981; Penguin Books, 1982. 1986 Takeover Time (Little, Brown and Company) 2000 The Wife of Shore: A SearchPaperback edition by Mill Creek Press, 2000.
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