Robert C. Holub

Robert C. Holub was an American germanist, university professor and administrator. He served as chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst from August 2008 to June 2012.

Early life and education

Born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, Holub was raised in Belmar, New Jersey, and attended Asbury Park High School. He became the first member of his family to attend college. Holub received his bachelor's degree in natural science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, going on to earn master's degrees in comparative literature and German and a Ph.D. in German from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Academic appointments

Serving as a professor of German at the University of California-Berkeley, he became a leading scholar of 19th- and 20th-century German intellectual, cultural, and literary history. At Berkeley, he also served as the undergraduate dean, college of letters and science from 2003 to 2006, before taking the position of provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of Tennessee, which he held from 2006 to 2008 before taking the chancellor position at UMass.

Death

Robert C. Holub died on August 27, 2023, at the age of 74.

Publications

Heinrich Heine’s Reception of German Grecophilia: The Function and Application of the Hellenic Tradition in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
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Friedrich Nietzsche.
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