HOLTZENDORFF, FRANZ VON German jurist, born at Vietmannsdorf, Brandenburg, on Oct. 14, 1829, studied law at Bonn, Heidelberg and Berlin. In 186o he was nominated a professor extraordinary at Berlin. The predominant party in Prussia regarded his political opinions with mistrust, and he did not become full professor until February 1873, after he had decided to accept a chair at the university of Munich. At Munich he passed the last nineteen years of his life. Holtzendorff was an authority on criminal and international law. He edited the Encyclopddie der Rechtswissenscha f t (Leipzig, 187o-71) and other works.