Holtzmann, Adolf, an eminent German philologist, born at Carlsruhe; gave himself to the study of theology and then of philology at various universities, and in 1852 became professor of the German Language and Literature at Heidelberg; author of various learned treatises on philology and kindred subjects (1810‒1870).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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