Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - Semitic studiesLinguistsHistoryMaurice Goldman was born in 1898 at Kolo, Poland. Raised and educated in Poland, he transferred in 1920 to the University of Berlin, where he graduated in 1925 in Islamic culture and oriental languages. He subsequently lectured in semitic languages at several universities in Germany until 1938 when he left Germany, narrowly eluding the Gestapo. He arrived in Australia in January, 1939. Throughout WW2 Goldman served as an interpreter and consultant to the Department of the Army in Melbourne. Initially a guest lecturer at the University his erudition resulted in a personal chair, the foundation chair, in Semitic Studies being created for him in 1945. A remarkable linguist, he had a working knowledge of forty languages. Active in Jewish affairs and the intellectual life of the University, he published many articles and chapters in Australian Jewish News and Australian Biblical review, which he had helped found. Maurice Goldman died on 14 September, 1957 in Melbourne.
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