Adolf Holm

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Adolf Holm around 1870

Adolf Holm (born August 8, 1830 in Lübeck , † June 9, 1900 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German ancient historian .

Life

Adolf Holm was the son of a Lübeck tobacco manufacturer and retailer and grew up in the house on the sunny side between Braunstraße and Holstenstraße on the Trave . He studied in Leipzig and Berlin and received his doctorate in 1851. He was then a high school teacher at the Katharineum in Lübeck . He dealt with the history and geography of ancient Sicily as well as Greece and wrote a multi-volume work on the history of Sicily in antiquity. In Lübeck he gave numerous lectures as a member of the Society for the Promotion of Charitable Activities and the Association for Lübeck History and Archeology. The former collection of plaster casts of ancient sculptures in the Museum am Dom was largely on his initiative. He was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Art and its chairman until he was called to Sicily. He was also editor of the Neue Lübeckischen Blätter .

On the basis of his publications, he was appointed to an extraordinary position for universal history at the University of Palermo in 1876 ​​at the instigation of the Sicilian historical researcher Michele Amari . In 1884 he was appointed to the University of Naples , where he taught until 1897. He spent his old age in Freiburg.

Fonts

  • De ethicis politicorum Aristotelis principiis . Dissertation Berlin 1851
  • Ancient geography of Sicily . Lübeck 1866
  • Contributions to the rectification of the map of ancient Sicily . Lübeck 1866
  • History of Sicily in Antiquity . Vol. 1, 1869; Vol. 2, 1874; Vol. 3, 1897
  • The geografia antica di Sicilia . Palermo 1871
  • Old Catania . Lübeck 1873 (Lübeck, Katharineum, school program 1873)
  • Storia della Sicilia nell'antichità . Torino 1896-1901
  • Il rinascimento italiano e la Grecia antica: Discorso inaugurale per la riapertura degli studi nell 'anno academico 1880-81 nella R. Università di Palermo . Palermo 1880
  • Greek history from its origins to the end of the independence of the Greek people . Berlin Vol. 1, 1886; Vol. 2, 1889; Vol. 3, 1891; Vol. 4, 1894
  • Lübeck, the Free and Hanseatic City . Velhagen & Klasing, 1900.
  • Memories , 1900. Printed in excerpt in Der Wagen 1959, pp. 153–155 (with a note by Paul Brockhaus )

literature

  • Gerhard Ahrens: From Lübeck to Sicily: Professore Adolfo Holm (1830-1900) , in: Journal of the Association for Lübeck History and Antiquity , Volume 87. Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2007, pp. 135–154
  • Gerhard Baader:  Holm, Adolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 546 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Christ: Greek history between Adolf Holm and Ettore Lepore , in: Greek history and history of science , Historia - individual writings, volume 106. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 144 ff.
  • Wilhelm Deecke : Professor Dr. Adolf Holm: a souvenir sheet for his 70th birthday . Lübeck 1900

Web links

Wikisource: Adolf Holm  - Sources and full texts

Remarks

  1. ^ Evidence in the Opac des Servizio bibliotecario nazionale
personal data
SURNAME Holm, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ancient historian
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1830
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck
DATE OF DEATH June 9, 1900
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau