Wilhelm Ludwig Holland
Wilhelm Ludwig Holland (born August 11, 1822 in Stuttgart , † August 28, 1891 in Tübingen ) was a German philologist, Germanist and Romanist.
Life
Holland studied Germanic and Romance philology at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin and, after having worked in Paris for a year, settled in Tübingen as a lecturer in 1847, where he was later appointed professor.
Works
In the Romance field he published:
- Chrestien von Troies, a study of the history of literature (Tübingen 1854)
- Chevalier au Lyon (Hanover 1862; 3rd edition, Braunschweig 1886)
- Fragments from the Chronicle of Alonso de Palencia (Tübingen 1850)
- La estória de los siete infantes de Lara (Tübingen 1860)
Published in the library of the Litterarian Society in Stuttgart on the Germanic field:
- Master Altswert (with Adelbert von Keller, 1850)
- The plays of Duke Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig (1855) ( digitized , Bavarian State Library )
- Book of Examples of the Ancient Wise Men (1860)
- Letters from Duchess Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans (1867–82, Vol. 1–6)
- Letter from Elector Karl Ludwig of the Palatinate and his family (1884)
With Adelbert von Keller and Franz Pfeiffer he edited Uhland's writings on the history of poetry and saga (Stuttgart. 1865–73, 8 vols.); He also delivered critical editions of Uhland's poetic works and prepared a comprehensive commentary on Uhland's poems, when the work on Uhland's ballad Merlin the Wild (1876) was published.
To Ludwig Uhland's memory, communications from his academic teaching activities (Leipzig 1886) should be mentioned from a later time .
As the successor to Adelbert von Kellers, Holland was appointed President of the aforementioned Literary Society in 1883.
literature
- Krauss, Rudolf: Holland, Wilhelm . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 50, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1905, pp. 448-450.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Holland, Wilhelm Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Holland, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Germanist and Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 11, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 28, 1891 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |