  hermann eduard von holst (june 19, 1841 â january 20, 1904) was a german-american historian. ==biography== holst was a baltic german born at fellin (viljandi) in russian livonia. he was the seventh of ten children of a lutheran minister. his father died while he was in the gymnasium and von holst only managed to stay in school by teaching and frugal living. he studied history at the universities of dorpat (tartu) and heidelberg, receiving his doctor's degree from the latter in 1865. in 1866, he settled in st. petersburg, but in consequence of a pamphlet on an attempt on the life of the emperor, which he published at leipzig while travelling abroad, his return to russia was forbidden. he decided to emigrate to the united states in july of the same year, 1867. he settled in new york city, where he taught modern languages for a time in a small private school and made a number of political speeches in the presidential campaign of 1868. in the autumn of 1869, he became assistant editor, under alexander j. schem, of the deutsch-amerikanisches conversations-lexicon. his german work on louis xiv, federzeichnung aus der geschichte des despotismus, appeared in leipzig soon after he arrived in the united states. he subsequently became a contributor to several american journals. on april 23, 1872 in manhattan, new york, he married annie isabelle hatt, the daughter of the rev. josiah hatt (1821â1857), pastor of the baptist church in hoboken, new jersey, and his wife, mary thomas. their son hermann v. von holst, the future architect, was born in freiburg in 1874. a call to a professorship of history in the newly reorganized university of strasbourg brought him ba
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