HOLST, HERMANN EDUARD VON German-American historian, was born at Fellin in the province of Livonia on June 19, 1841. Barred from his tutorship in Russia because of a political article, he emigrated to America in 1867, remaining there until 1872. He was professor of history in the University of Strasbourg (1872-74) and at Freiburg in Baden (1874-92) and was also a member of the Baden Herrenhaus. In 1892-1902 he was head of the department of history at the University of Chicago. He died in Freiburg on Jan. 20, 1904. His principal work is his Constitutional and Political History of the United States (German ed., 1873-91) ; English trans., 92) , based on source materials and written from a strongly anti slavery point of view.