Hermann Eduard von Holst

Hermann Eduard von Holst (born 7 Junijul / June 19 1841greg to Fellin, Estonia, .. † January 20, 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's family (16th century) from Basedow at Malchin (Landkreis Demmin, Mecklenburg ) and was the son of Valentin von Holst ( 1808-1860 ), pastor of Fellin, and Marie Lenz ( 1812-1886 ).

Holst married on April 23, 1872 Isabelle Hatt (* April 27, 1848; † February 5, 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau). Their children were the daughter of 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 at the universities of Dorpat and Heidelberg history and undertook after he received his doctorate in 1865 in Heidelberg, several study trips to France, Italy, Algeria, etc.

Since his 1867 published brochure " The assassination on 16 April (1866 ) in its importance to the cultural and historical development of Russia " in Saint Petersburg was regarded as a political crime and his career made ​​it impossible there, Holst decided in the summer of 1867 to emigrate to the United States. There he began systematic studies of the history and the Union's political and social conditions, was a correspondent of the " Cologne Gazette " active in journalism and was the second editor of the " German - American conversational lexicon ".

In 1872 he was appointed associate professor of history at the University of Strasbourg, 1874 as Professor of Modern History at the University of Freiburg. In 1876, he undertook, with the support of the Baden government a study trip to London, from 1878 to 1879 with a travel scholarship from the Prussian Academy of Sciences such. In the U.S., where he was a professor at the University of Chicago He was the Grand Duke of Baden and Privy 1881-1892 appointed by the Grand Duke member of the First Chamber of the States General Baden. From 1889 to 1892 he sat in front of the Baden First Chamber as second vice president.

Works

Besides a book on Louis XIV of France and numerous essays in the " Prussian Yearbooks " he wrote, " Constitution and Democracy of the United States of North America " ( Volume 1: State sovereignty and slavery, Dusseldorf 1873; band 2-4: constitutional history since the administration Jackson, Dusseldorf 1878-1884), a system based on thorough studies, impartial and quite new points tracked historical work whose style and exterior shape are just a little cumbersome, but that has also found an English translation (Chicago 1877-1882 ). In "Handbook of public law " by Joachim Marquardt (1812-1882) he edited the " constitutional law of the United States " ( Freiburg, 1885).

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