HOLST, HERMANN EDUARD VON

¢ ee German historical writer; 6. Fellin, Livonia; 4. Freiburg, Germany. He engaged in journalism after studying at Dorpat and Heidelberg and in 1866 came to New York City, where he became American correspondent of the Kolnich Zeitung and an editor of a German-American journal. He returned to Germany in 1872 to occupy _ the chair of history at the University of Stra burg and later that of Freiburg. _ After relinquishing the latter post he _ travelled in England and the United States, where, from 1892 to 1900 he served as profe or of history at the ‘University of Chicago. He wrote the Constitutional and Political History of the United States, 8 vols., and a life of