Adolf Holtzmann

Adolf Holtzmann (2 May 1810 in Karlsruhe – 3 July 1870 in Heidelberg) was a German professor and philologist. His name is associated with a Proto-Germanic sound law known as Holtzmann's Law.

Adolf Holtzmann
Adolf Holtzmann
Born(1810-05-02)2 May 1810
Died3 July 1870(1870-07-03) (aged 60)
NationalityGerman
EducationUniversity of Halle
Alma materUniversity of Berlin
Known forHoltzmann's Law
SpouseLuise
Scientific career
FieldsPhilology
InstitutionsUniversity of Heidelberg
Academic advisorsFriedrich Schleiermacher

He studied theology at the universities of Halle and Berlin, where he was a student of Friedrich Schleiermacher. He later studied philology at the University of Munich, where his influences included Johann Andreas Schmeller. Holtzmann also attended classes in Paris given by Eugène Burnouf, and beginning in 1837, spent a number of years working as a tutor to members of Baden royalty.[1] From 1852 he was a professor of German literature and Sanskrit at the University of Heidelberg, and a notable philologist of his day.[2]

Holtzmann was the father-in-law of Albrecht Kossel, German biochemist and 1910 Nobel laureate, by his marriage to Holtzmann's daughter, Luise, in 1886.[2]

Selected works

  • Ueber den griechischen Ursprung des indischen Thierkreises, 1841 On the Greek origin of the Indian zodiac.
  • Über den Umlaut. Zwei Abhandlungen, 1843 On umlaut : two treatises.
  • Über den Ablaut, 1844 On ablaut.
  • Beiträge zur Erklärung der persischen Keilinschriften, 1845 Contributions to the explanation of Persian cuneiform inscriptions.
  • Indische Sagen, 1st part 1845 and 3rd part 1847 (2nd ed. in two volumes 1854) Indian legends.
  • Untersuchungen über das Nibelungenlied, 1854 Investigations of the "Nibelungenlied".
  • Kelten und Germanen. Eine historische Untersuchung, 1855 Celts and Germans, a historical study.
  • Der große Wolfdieterich, 1865 Wolfdietrich.
  • Altdeutsche Grammatik, umfassend die gotische, altnordische, altsächsische Sprache, 1870-75 (with Alfred Holder) Old Germanic grammar; spanning Gothic, Old Norse and Old Saxon.
  • Germanische Alterthümer. Mit Text, Übersetzung und Erklärung von Tacitus Germania, 1873 Germanic antiquities with text, translation and explanation of Tacitus' "Germania".
  • Deutsche Mythologie, 1874 (edited by Alfred Holder; published posthumously) German mythology.[3]

See also

References

  1. ADB:Holtzmann, Adolf at Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
  2. Jones, Mary Ellen (September 1953). "Albrecht Kossel, A Biographical Sketch". Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 26 (1): 80–97. PMC 2599350. PMID 13103145.
  3. Most widely held works by Adolf Holtzmann WorldCat Identities

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