Hermann Eduard von Holst
| Hermann Eduard von Holst | |
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| Born | 19 June 1841 Fellin (now called Viljandi), Russian Empire (now in Estonia) |
| Died |
20 January 1904 (aged 62) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany |
| Nationality | Baltic German |
| Alma mater |
University of Dorpat Heidelberg University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History |
| Thesis | (1865) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ludwig Häusser |
| Doctoral students | Albert Bushnell Hart |
Hermann Eduard von Holst (June 19, 1841 – January 20, 1904) was a German-American historian.
Holst was a Baltic German born at Fellin, Russian Empire. (It is now Viljandi, Estonia.) He was the seventh of ten children of a Lutheran minister. His father died while he was in the Gymnasium (elite secondary school), and he had to teach and live frugally to stay in school.
He studied history at the universities of University of Dorpat now (Tartu) and Heidelberg, where he received a doctorate under Ludwig Häusser in 1865. In 1866, he settled in St. Petersburg, but in consequence of a pamphlet on an attempt on the life of the emperor, which he published at Leipzig while he was traveling abroad, his return to Russia was forbidden.
He decided to emigrate to the United States in July 1867. He settled in New York City, where he taught modern languages for a time in a small private school and made a number of political speeches in the runup to the 1868 election. In the autumn of 1869, he became assistant editor, under Alexander Jacob Schem, of the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Conversations-Lexicon.
His work in German on Louis XIV, Federzeichnung aus der Geschichte des Despotismus, appeared in Leipzig soon after he arrived to the US. He subsequently became a contributor to several American journals.
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