Robert Holsten

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Robert Holsten (born May 20, 1862 in Langenhanshagen , † December 13, 1954 in Greifswald ) was a German educator and folklorist .

Life

Robert Wilhelm Johannes Philipp Holsten was the eldest son of the landlord Friedrich Holsten (1833–1918). His brother Max (1865–1949) became a bookseller in Szczecin. His sister Franziska (1870–1951) married a son of the Gützkower superintendent Peter Gottfried Dankwardt († 1882).

Robert Holsten graduated from high school in Stralsund in 1880 and then studied ancient languages in Leipzig and Greifswald . In 1884 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. He was a teacher in several German cities, in 1898 senior teacher at the König-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Stettin and from 1907 to 1927 director of the Bismarck-Gymnasium in Pyritz . Holsten had been a privy councilor since 1918. He then worked at the University of Greifswald as a recognized folklorist. In 1934 he was awarded the silver Leibniz Medal by the Prussian Academy of Sciences .

Robert Holsten was married to Katharina Colditz (1870–1964) and had eight children with her.

Fonts

  • From the Pyritzer Weizacker. The folklore of the Weizacker . Appendix to the inventory of architectural and artistic monuments in the Pyritz district. Saunier, Stettin 1914.
  • Coccinella septempunctata in Pomeranian Low German . Backe, Pyritz 1914.
  • Local history of Pyritz and the surrounding area . Backe, Pyritz 1921.
  • Language boundaries in Pomeranian Low German . Eichblatt, Leipzig 1928.
  • The oldest German field names in Pomerania . In: Baltic Studies . Volume 35 NF 1933, pp. 1-42.
  • The history of the Pyritzer Gymnasium from 1909–1934 . Pyritz 1934.
  • The Pomeranian field name collection . Stettin 1942. Newly published, Böhlau, Cologne 1963.

literature

  • Alfred Haas : Robert Holsten . In: Unser Pommerland , issue 9/1922, pp. 338-340.
  • Manfred Thies: Guerlin, Felix Edouard Antoine . In: The old cemetery . Greifswald 2004, p. 23.
  • Rembert Unterstell: Klio in Pomerania. The history of the Pomeranian historiography 1815 to 1945. Böhlau, Köln a. a. 1996, ISBN 3-412-14495-9 , pp. 173-185.

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personal data
SURNAME Holsten, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German educator and folklorist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenhanshagen
DATE OF DEATH December 13, 1954
Place of death Greifswald