Alfred Holder

Alfred Theophil Holder was an Austrian philologist, historian, and librarian. A specialist of Latin literature and Roman history, he is best known for his editions of Horace, Caesar, Tacitus, and Avianus, as well as for his three-volume lexicon of ancient Celtic languages entitled Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz.

Biography

Alfred Theophil Holder was born on 4 April 1840 in Vienna, the son of Gottlieb Holder, a painter, and Natalie Rheinboldt. He studied classical and German philology at the universities of Bonn and Heidelberg, then continued his education in Paris. From 1863, he worked as a schoolteacher in Rastatt, the Netherlands, and in Ladenburg. In 1867, he joined the Grand Ducal Baden Court and State Library in Karlsruhe, where he became a librarian in 1870. In 1904, he became head of the manuscript department, and in 1911, was appointed director.
From 1895 to 1918, he authored volumes 3, 5-7 of the Die Handschriften der Grossherzoglich Badischen Hof- und Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe. He died on 12 January 1916 in Karlsruhe.

Opera recensvervnt O. Keller et A. Holder, 2 volumes, 1864-70.
Altdeutsche Grammatik, umfassend die gotische, altnordische, altsächsische Sprache, 1870 - Old Germanic grammar; Gothic, Old Norse, Old Saxon languages.
Waltharius: lateinisches Gedicht des zehnten Jahrhunderts, 1874.
De origine et situ Germanorum liber 1878.
Q. Horati Flacci opera, 4 parts 1878, with Otto Keller.
Einhardi Vita Karoli imperatoris, 1881.
Beowulf, 2 parts 1882-84.
Baedae Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorvm, 1882.
Saxonis Grammatici Gesta Danorvm, 1886.
Herodoti Historiae, 2 volumes 1886-88.
Rufi Festi Avieni Carmina, 1887.
Historiarum liber quintus, 5 volumes 1887-90.
Commentum in Horatium Flaccum, 1894.
Alt-celtischer Sprachschatz, 3 volumes. 1896-1919.
C. Iuli Caesaris belli civilis libri III, 1898.
Favonii Eulogii Disputatio de Somnio Scipionis, 1901.