Goldstein, Julius

Julius Goldstein was born to a Hamburg merchant family in 1873. After completing secondary school he studied philosophy at the Universities of Jena and Berlin and the Technical Institute in Darmstadt, completing his doctorate in 1899 and his habilitation in 1903.

From 1903 to 1924, with an interruption for army service in the First World War, Goldstein taught at the Technical Institute in Darmstadt, but never obtained a chair in the department. He was forced to support himself and his family by freelance lecturing and journalism. During this time he lectured in various cities in Germany, and was often away from his family. In 1923-1924 Julius Goldstein took his wife Margarete with him on a lecture trip to America, where they traveled to many cities in the United States. Finally, in 1924 the state government of Hessen appointed him an Extraordinarius over the objections of the Darmstadt faculty. Goldstein remained in that position until his death in 1929 of liver disease.

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