Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt (June 17, 1802 – April 26, 1866) was a German-French
astronomer and painter who spent much of his life in France. He started out as a painter, but after attending a lecture by the famous French astronomer
Urbain Le Verrier turned to astronomy. His discovery of the
asteroid Lutetia in 1852 was followed by further findings and by 1861 Goldschmidt had discovered 14 asteroids. He received the
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1861 for having discovered more asteroids than any other person up to that time. He died from complications of
diabetes.