Adolf Holtzmann

Adolf Holtzmann ( born 2 May 1810 in Karlsruhe, † July 3, 1870 in Heidelberg ) was a German scholar and German Indologist.

Life

Adolf Holtzmann, brother of Karl Julius Holtzmann, studied theology in Halle and Berlin, but then turned to the science of language, by 1832, he went with the support of the government to Munich, in 1834 in Paris.

Appointed in 1837 as tutor to the Prince of Baden, he remained a number of years in this position until 1852, he was appointed professor of German and Indian language at the University of Heidelberg. He died here on July 3, 1870.

Works

His works belong to the field of oriental languages ​​( Indian and Old Persian ) as that of the German language and literature. Of those mentioned are his translation of the Indian epic

  • Ramayana ( Karlsruhe. 1841), the
  • Indian legends (Karlsruhe), the font
  • About the Greek origin of the Indian Zodiac (1841 ) and the
  • Contributions to the explanation of the Persian cuneiform inscriptions (Karlsruhe 1845, Issue 1); the field of German grammar in a language- comparative basis are:
  • About the umlaut (Karlsruhe 1843) and
  • About the ablaut (Karlsruhe 1844), of German literature, his edition of the Old High German translation of a treatise by Isidor (1836 ), his
  • Studies on the Nibelungenlied (Stuttgart 1854), in which he confronted the prevailing view of Karl Lachmann with success, and followed except the polemic
  • Nibelungenlied (1857 ) and the
  • Action (1859 ) and the school edition of the
  • Nibelungenlied ( 3rd edition 1874) joined, and finally the issue of
  • Great Wolf Dietrich (Heidelberg 1865).

Great opposition was his book Celts and Germans (Stuttgart 1855), in which he tried to prove the identity of both peoples. His Old German grammar (Leipzig 1870-75, Vol 1) remained unfinished.

Published after his death appeared, by Alfred Holder: Germanic antiquities with text, translation and explanation of Tacitus Germania (Leipzig 1873); his lectures on German mythology (1874 ) and the older Edda, translated and explained (1875 ).

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