Hermann Eduard von Holst

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Hermann Eduard von Holst

Hermann Eduard von Holst (born June 7 . Jul / 19th June  1841 greg. To Fellin , Estonia ; † 20th January 1904 in Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden ) was a German historian and professor of Modern History in Freiburg and in Chicago .

family

Hermann Eduard von Holst came from a pastor family (16th century) from Basedow near Malchin ( Demmin district , Mecklenburg ) and was the son of Valentin von Holst (1808–1860), pastor in Fellin, and Marie Lenz (1812–1886).

Holst married Isabelle Hatt on April 23, 1872 (born April 27, 1848, † February 5, 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau). Their children were their daughter Mary (* 1873) and the architect Hermann Valentin von Holst (* 1874).

He is a relative of the biologist and behavioral scientist Erich von Holst (1908–1962).

Life

Holst studied history at the Universities of Dorpat and Heidelberg and, after completing his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1865, undertook several study trips to France , Italy , Algeria, etc.

Since his brochure " The Assassination of April 16 (1866) in its Significance for the Cultural and Historical Development of Russia ", published in 1867, was viewed as a political crime in Saint Petersburg and made his career there impossible, Holst decided in the summer of 1867 to emigrate to the United States States . There he began systematic studies of the history and the political and social conditions of the Union, worked as a correspondent for the " Kölnische Zeitung " and was the second editor of the " German-American conversation lexicon ".

In 1872 he was appointed associate professor of history at the University of Strasbourg , in 1874 he was appointed full professor of modern history at the University of Freiburg i. Br. Called. In 1876 he undertook a study trip to London with the support of the Baden government , and from 1878 to 1879 with a travel grant from the Prussian Academy of Sciences to the USA, where he was a professor at the University of Chicago . He was the privy councilor of Baden and from 1881 to 1892 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly appointed by the Grand Duke . From 1889 to 1892 he was the second vice-president of the Baden First Chamber. In 1894 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He was also a member of the Baden Historical Commission .

Works

In addition to a paper on Louis XIV of France and numerous articles in the “ Prussian Yearbooks ” he wrote “ Constitution and Democracy of the United States of North America ” (Volume 1: State sovereignty and slavery , Düsseldorf 1873; Volume 2–4: Constitutional history since the administration Jacksons , Düsseldorf 1878-1884), an impartial and completely new point of view, historical work based on thorough studies, the style and external form of which are only somewhat clumsy, but which has also found an English translation (Chicago 1877-1882). In the “ Manual of Public Law ” by Joachim Marquardt (1812–1882), he worked on the “ Constitutional Law of the United States ” (Freiburg 1885).

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SURNAME Holst, Hermann Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Fellin , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1904
Place of death Freiburg im Breisgau , Baden