Alfred Holder

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Alfred Theophil Holder (born April 3, 1840 in Vienna , † January 12, 1916 in Karlsruhe ) was a German librarian , manuscript researcher and philologist.

Life

Alfred Holder, son of the miniature painter Gottlieb Holder (1806–1845), studied classical and Germanic philology in Bonn and Heidelberg from 1858 to 1862 . During his studies in 1860 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity and later the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity . After graduating, he went on a long trip to Paris to study library. He started teaching in 1863 and taught in Rastatt , the Netherlands and Ladenburg . From 1867 he worked at the Grand Ducal Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. There he became librarian in 1870, head librarian in 1904 and head of the manuscript department, and from 1911 until his death he was director of the library. In 1869 he received his doctorate from the University of Freiburg .

Holder's focus was on scientific rather than administrative tasks. As a philologist and palaeographer, he has made a special contribution to researching, indexing and editing manuscripts. Since 1906, the Badische Landesbibliothek has participated in the supra-regional lending system under his direction.

Holder combined the work of the manuscript librarian with the edition of ancient and medieval texts. His text editions are based on intensive studies of the history of transmission and in some cases new manuscript finds. He edited Horace (1869, with Otto Keller ) and the scholias of Pomponius Porphyrio zu Horace (1894), Tacitus ' Germania (1873, 1878), Caesars De bello Gallico (1882) and De bello civili (1898), Herodotus (1882) ), Avienus Carmina (1887). In the series Germanischer Bücherschatz founded by him , he gave a. a. Tacitus ' Germania (1882), Einhard's Vita Karoli imperatoris (1882), Jordanes ' De origine actibusque Getarum (1882) and Bedas Historia ecclesiastica (1895–1899).

His most important philological work was the "Alt-Celtische Sprachschatz" (1896-1913), a historical dictionary of the Celtic based on the ancient written tradition and the inscriptions.

Publications (selection)

  • with Adolf Holtzmann : Germanic antiquities: with text, translation and explanation by Tacitus Germania. Teubner, Leipzig 1873 ( digitized version ).
  • with Adolf Holtzmann: German Mythology: Lectures. Teubner, Leipzig 1874 ( digitized version ).
  • with Adolf Holtzmann: The older Edda translated and explained. Lectures. Teubner, Leipzig 1875 ( digitized ).
  • with Joseph Victor von Scheffel : Waltharius: Latin poem of the tenth century . Metzler, Stuttgart 1874 ( digitized version ).
  • with Otto Keller : Q. Horati Flacci opera . 2nd volume, Leipzig 1869; Editio minor, Leipzig 1878.
  • with Otto Keller: Scholia antiqua in Q. Horatium Flaccum . Volume 1: Pomponi Porfyrionis commentum in Hortium Flaccum . Innsbruck 1894.
  • Beowulf . Mohr, Freiburg / Leipzig 1895–1897.
  • The manuscripts of the Grand Ducal Badische Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe
    • Volume 3: The Durlach and Rastatt manuscripts . Karlsruhe 1895 (reprint 1970, digitized ).
    • Volume 5: The Reichenau manuscripts Volume 1: The parchment manuscripts . Karlsruhe 1906 (reprint 1970, digitized version )
    • Volume 6: The Reichenau Manuscripts Volume 2: The Paper Manuscripts . Fragmenta. Supplements . Karlsruhe 1914 (reprint 1971, digitized version ).
    • Volume 7: The Reichenauer Manuscripts Volume 3: Register for Volume 1 and Volume 2. Foundation of the library. The old catalogs. Evidence of library history. Register . Karlsruhe 1918.
  • Old Celtic vocabulary . 3 volumes. Teubner, Leipzig, Vol. 1: A – H, 1896, Vol. 2: I – T, 1904, Vol. 3: U – Z, 1913 ( digitized volume 1 , digitized volume 2 ).

literature

  • Daniel Feuling : Alfred Holder 1840-1916. In: Historical-political sheets for Catholic Germany 157 (1916), pp. 469–479.
  • Franz Dor: Dr. Alfred Holder, senior librarian at the regional library in Karlsruhe. In: Franz Dor: Noble men our home. - Karlsruhe: Badenia, 1920. - pp. 130-140.
  • A. Manser: Alfred Holder. In: Studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches 40 (1920), pp. 354-360.
  • Karl Preisendanz : A. Holder's handwritten estate. In: Die Pyramide 9 (1920) 51, pp. 386-387 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Preisendanz: The Alfred Holder letter collection. In: Die Pyramide 13 (1924) 2, pp. 5-6 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl Preisendanz: The manuscripts of the Badische Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe Vol. 8 The Karlsruhe manuscripts 2 . Karlsruhe 1926, pp. V-XLVIII (reprint 1972, digital version ).
  • Max Weber: Alfred Holder. In: Humanitas: 1808-1958. 150 years of the Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium Rastatt. - Rastatt: Ludwig-Wilhelm-Gymnasium, 1958. - pp. 160–162.
  • Hans Lülfing :  Holder, Alfred. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-428-00190-7 , p. 525 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Karl Banghard: A day without a written line was a lost time for him: the grand ducal librarian and manuscript researcher Alfred Holder was born 150 years ago. In: Badische Latest Nachrichten 46 (1990) of March 31, 1990.
  • Alfred Holder died in 1916: Manuscripts as Passion, in: StadtZeitung No. 3, January 22, 2016, p. 2.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 88.

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Holder, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holder, Alfred Theophil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German librarian, manuscript researcher and philologist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1840
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1916
Place of death Karlsruhe