Wilhelm Ludwig Holland
Wilhelm Ludwig Holland (11 August 1822 – 28 August 1891) was a German philologist, Germanist and Romance philologist.
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Biography
Wilhelm Ludwig Holland was born in Stuttgart. Holland studied Germanic and Romance philology at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin and, after working in Paris for another year, settled as a lecturer in Tübingen in 1847, where he was later appointed professor.
Works
In the field of Romance studies he published:
- Chrestien von Troies, eine literaturgeschichtliche Untersuchung (1854)
- Chevalier au Lyon (1862; 1886)
- Bruchstücke aus der Chronik des Alonso de Palencia (1850)
- La estória de los siete infantes de Lara (1860)
In the field of German studies, he published in the Library of the Literary Society of Stuttgart:
- Meister Altswert (1850; with Adelbert von Keller)
- Die Schauspiele des Herzogs Heinrich Julius von Braunschweig (1855)
- Buch der Beispiele der alten Weisen (1860)
- Briefe der Herzogin Elisabeth Charlotte von Orléans (1867–82; 6 volumes)
- Schreiben des Kurfürsten Karl Ludwig von der Pfalz und der Seinen (1884)
Alongside Adelbert von Keller and Franz Pfeiffer, he edited Uhlands Schriften zur Geschichte der Dichtung und Sage (1865-73; 8 volumes); he also provided the first critical editions of Uhland's poetic works and prepared a comprehensive commentary on Uhland's poems, a sample of which was published in Über Uhland's Ballade Merlin der Wilde (1876).
From a later period, his Zu Ludwig Uhlands Gedächtnis, Mitteilungen aus seiner akademischen Lehrtätigkeit (1886) should also be mentioned.
As Adelbert von Keller's successor, Holland was appointed president of the above-mentioned Literary Society in 1883.
References
- Krauß, Rudolf (1905). "Holland, Wilhelm". In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). 50. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 448–50.
