HERMANN EDUARD VON HOLST (1841–1904)  , German-American historian, was born at Fellin in the province of Livonia, on the 19th of June 1841 . He was educated at the universities of Dorpat and Heidelberg, receiving his doctor's degree from the latter in 1865 . He emigrated to America in 1867, remaining there until 1872 . He was professor of history in the newly reorganized university of Strassburg from 1872 to 1874, and at Freiburg in Baden from 1874 to 1892, and for ten years he was a member of the Baden Herrenhaus, and vice-president for four . He revisited the United States in 1878—79 and in 1884, and in 1892 he became head of the department of history at the university of Chicago . Retiring on account of ill-health in 1900, he returned to Germany and died at Freiburg on the 20th of January 1904 . Both through his books and through his lectures at the university of Chicago, Von Hoist exerted a powerful influence in encouraging American students to follow more closely the German methods of historical research . His principal work is his Constitutional and Political History of the United States (German ed., 5 vols., 1873—91; English trans. by Lalor and Mason, 8 vols., 1877—92), which covers the period from 1783 to 1861, though more than half of it is devoted to the decade 1850—60; it is written from a strongly anti-slavery point of view . Among his other writings are The Constitutional Law of the United States of America (German ed., 1885; English trans., 1887); John C . Calhoun (1882), in the American Statesmen Series; John Brawn (1888), and The French Revolution Tested by Mirabeau's Career (1894) . See the Political Science Quarterly, v . 677–78; the Nation, lxxviii .

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