HOLTZMANN, bUlts'tnitn, ADOLF (1810-70). A German philologist, born at Karlsruhe. He studied theology at Berlin and was for a short time vicar at, Kandern. In 1832 he renewed his studies at Munich and later at Paris, and made a specialty of old Germanic dialects and Sanskrit. In 1852 he was made professor of German and Sanskrit at Heidelberg, where he died. His works are: In Indian philology: Leber den griechisehen Ursprung des indisehen Ticrkreises (1841), and the translations Rama jana (last edition, 1843), Indische Segen (1845 47) ; in Gennanics: Kelten and Germanen (1S55). an attempt to identify the two peoples; Untcrsuchungen iibcr das Nibelungenlied (1854), and Das Nibelungenlied (1857), both attacking Lachmann's theory of the composite authorship of the poem and renewing the question; the much more important grammatical works, the edition of Isidorus (1836), Ueber den Umlaut (1843) ; Ucber den Ablaut (1S44): Altdeutsche Gram matik (uncompleted, 1870-75) ; and the posthu mous works, Germanische Altertiimer mit Text. Ucbersctzung und Erkliirung von Tacitus Ger mania (1873), and Deutsche Mythologic (1374).
HOLUB, 116'1np, EatIL (1S47-1902). An Afri can explorer, born at Holitz in Bohemia. He studied medicine and natural science at the University of Prague, and then, in 1872, went to South Africa. He lived for a time in the
diamond-fields, but early in 1873 made a journey through the southern Bantu countries, and in the fall a second to the Transvaal and the lands to the north. In 1875 he succeeded in reaching the Zambezi and the Victoria Falls. and brought back with him a rich natural science and ethnological collection, which he divided among various European institutions. In 1883. accompanied by his wife, he started from Cape Town with the intention of traversing the entire length of the African continent to Egypt. lie had accomplished scarcely one-third of the jour ney. however, when he was attacked by hostile tribesmen or the Kafue, a northern tributary of the Zambezi. and only after a desperate struggle was he able to win his way back to civilization. Fortunately, he was able to save the large collec tion which he had gathered. and this, after it bad been exhibited in Vienna and Prague. he divided among a number of museums. Ilis publications include: The Victoria Falls (1879) : Sieben Jahrc in Siidafrika (1880-8-1). translated by Ellen E. Frewer as Seven Years in South Africa (2d ed.
1881) ; and Von Kapstadt ins Land der Maschu kulumbe (1SSS-90).