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.