Richard Holland (classical philologist)

Richard Holland (born March 4, 1860 in Seidau near Bautzen , † in the 20th century) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher .

Richard Holland studied at the University of Leipzig from 1880 after attending grammar school in Bautzen . In 1884 he received his doctorate there with Otto Ribbeck with a thesis on Polyphemus and Galateia . He worked as a teacher at the Thomasschule in Leipzig and published Rege on topics of Greek mythology as well as articles in Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher's detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology .

Publications (selection)

• De Polyphemo et Galatea commentatio philologica . Leipzig 1884 (= dissertation with curriculum vitae, digitized version ).
  • completely in Leipziger Studies for Classical Philology 7, 1884, pp. 139-312 ( digitized version ).
• Heroe birds in Greek mythology, with an appendix about Diomedes in Italy . Edelmann, Leipzig 1895 ( digitized version ).
• Subject index . In: Theophrast's characters. Edited, explained and translated by the Philological Society of Leipzig . Teubner, Leipzig 1897.
• The legend of Daidalos and Icarus . Edelmann, Leipzig 1902 ( digitized version ).
• Studia Sidoniana . Edelmann, Leipzig 1905 ( digitized version ).