Education
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 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 is particularly notable for having blended these skills prior to popularization by such novelists as John Grisham. Solmssen spent his early childhood in Berlin, and his adolescence and later youth in the suburbs of Philadelphia. 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 Limited Liability Partnership. Solmssen has published several novels, the most famous of which is A Princess in Berlin (1980).
A Princess in Berlin is a portrait of the early Weimar Republic, and has been the subject of multiple translations. 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. Such analysis would appear to have been a factor in renewed interest in this novel, which was reissued in 2002.
Solmssen is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar, with which he maintains an active association.
He recently finished a book about German flier Ernst Udet. Solmssen has three sons, Peter York Solmssen, Kurt A. Solmssen, and A.R.G. Solmssen Junior.